18 September 2007
A mercenary by any other name is still a mercenary. These so called contractors, allowed by the State Department to supplement our military, do not follow any rules but their own. Many are not even licensed. Blackwater, one such group, is accused of killing 11 civilians on Sunday and ordered out of Iraq by the Iraqi government. That order was later recinded, with coercion by the US State Department no doubt Sources in Baghdad say they operate in a world of little regulation and few companies hold up-to-date licenses and also bribe their way into work. Has this happened in other wars? Does our military being so stressed lead to these kind of operations of which most Americans know very little? No wonder the majority of Iraqis want the US out of Iraq.
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