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Private Contractors Outnumber U.S. Forces In Iraq : coalition of the billing ...

fucking amazing !!!!

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Washington, D.C. (AHN)-The number of private contractors in Iraq now exceeds the number of U.S. combat troops, according to newly released government figures sure to spur debate in Congress as lawmakers, from both sides of the aisle, question the war.

More than 180,000 civilians - including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis - are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, paid with U.S. tax dollars, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Including the recent troop surge, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq, the newspaper reports.

According to recently released Department of Labor figures, more than 1,000 private military contractors have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a number based on insurance claims filed on behalf of contractors that had been killed. The figure includes both U.S. and foreign contractors.

The number of U.S.-paid contractors, higher than previously thought, is raising questions about the privatization of the four-year-old war, which has claimed the lives of at least 3,580 U.S. military personnel.

"These numbers are big," said Peter Singer, of Brookings Institution, who has written extensively on military contracting, according to The Times. "They illustrate better than anything that we went in without enough troops. This is not the coalition of the willing. It's the coalition of the billing."

So this is according to the State and Defense department, the same people said they had SOLID prove of WMD's and PROVE that Osama and Saddam was connected. I dont belive it. Not trying to be a ass, but those numbers just dont seem real

Watch this short video about Blackwater, whose contracts from the war in Iraq now run into the hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

Blackwater USA mercenary army

I see an organization such as Blackwater as a potential threat to democracy in this country.

Already lawsuits are being filed against Blackwater, and calls are being made for Congress to investigate possible corruption and illegal billing practices.

The government should not allow war profiteering, but it is perhaps the easiest way for them to pad their pockets and their cronies that own these companies outside of public review.

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