http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/middleeast/24contractors.html?_r=1&hp
We have over 700 bases around the world but they didn't have enough soldiers.
And we have a military WHY?
We could save money by cutting them out all together and subbing the job out.
Don't you find it hard to believe that that the government start 2 conflicts in different countries at the same time and by coincidence found themselves lacking in man power?
How much money have we paid just for contractor services alone?
How soon will it be before they phase out the soldier completely, for an all private security force to do the slaughtering of jack thugs in the name of the United States of America?
And you wonder why the Iraqi hatred towards us grows?
We're paying for these murderers to kill them at will without provocation.
31 Iraqi civilians die every day at random. They die for nothing other than trying to live their lives under the occupation of us.
The documents sketch, in vivid detail, a critical change in the way America wages war: the early days of the Iraq war, with all its Wild West chaos, ushered in the era of the private contractor, wearing no uniform but fighting and dying in battle, gathering and disseminating intelligence and killing presumed insurgents.
There have been many abuses, including civilian deaths, to the point that the Afghan government is working to ban many outside contractors entirely.
The use of security contractors is expected to grow as American forces shrink. A July report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting, a panel established by Congress, estimated that the State Department alone would need more than double the number of contractors it had protecting the American Embassy and consulates in Iraq.
Contractors were necessary at the start of the Iraq war because there simply were not enough soldiers to do the job. In 2004, their presence became the symbol for Iraq’s
