#1 - Contractors in Iraq > The Super Bowl of war > Public Policy & Politics

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#1 − Contractors in Iraq

kavorka –

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=5337

Is an article by Rober Fisk highlighting the actual number of deaths suffered by the occupation regime. One saliant point is that the media reports the number of soldiers dying, whereas the number of US employees who go back in body bags is much higher.

#2 − Hired Muscle

marco –

That’s interesting because of their job description, that “many of them [are] tasked to protect US troops and personnel”. The Army can’t be so bad … they hire more troops to protect their troops.

“Often the foreign contract workers are highly paid former soldiers who are armed with automatic weapons, leading to Iraqis viewing all foreign workers as possible mercenaries or spies.”

That is a dastardly conclusion to which only a crazy Arab could come. Ahem.