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The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, a milestone that reflects the Bush administration's unprecedented level of dependence on private firms for help in the war, according to a government report to be released Tuesday.
The report, by the Congressional Budget Office, according to people with knowledge of its contents, will say that one out of every five dollars spent on the war in Iraq has gone to contractors for the United States military and other government agencies, in a war zone where employees of private contractors now outnumber American troops.
The Pentagon's reliance on outside contractors in Iraq is proportionately far larger than in any previous conflict, and it has fueled charges that this outsourcing has led to overbilling, fraud and shoddy and unsafe work that has endangered and even killed American troops. The role of armed security contractors has also raised new legal and political questions about whether the United States has become too dependent on private armed forces on the 21st-century battlefield.
Don't forget that some congressmen and senators also have stock in the companies that have profited considerably from the war in Iraq.
Originally posted by DarthAmerica
Wow, another vast conspiracy...LMAO. Boy you guys really need help. The contractors are a huge saving compared to having soldiers do those jobs and we benefit from them immensely. The Private sector has really changed the way we fight wars and believe me it's is better. The role of contractors will no doubt continue to grow. I'm glad I got to see this first hand.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003,
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Have any of you heard about the few dozen American Servicemen who have been electrocuted in facilities, built overseas, by contracters that the Halliburton firm oversaw? NO? Then I suggest you look it up....try to Google it, or if that fails, then go to MSNBC and search there.
WHY is this not in the MSM?
Wow, another vast conspiracy...LMAO.
Boy you guys really need help. The contractors are a huge saving compared to having soldiers do those jobs and we benefit from them immensely
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
reply to post by DarthAmerica
I hope you are being sarcastic and not supporting mercenaries sent by your govt. to kill innocent people and have 0 responsibility!
Originally posted by DarthAmerica
Don't however, come here and post nonsense about "mercenaries" and the like you obviously know nothing about.
Originally posted by Grafilthy
reply to post by groingrinder
Don't forget that some congressmen and senators also have stock in the companies that have profited considerably from the war in Iraq.
WOW...
We need to dig on this. I am VERY interested in WHO is making a proverbial "killing" on this war. I know Cheney and his buddies, but congress and senators??
CONFLICT OF INTEREST??!???!!!?!?!???
Originally posted by budski
Originally posted by DarthAmerica
Don't however, come here and post nonsense about "mercenaries" and the like you obviously know nothing about.
This is more about the blatant profiteering of the contractors than anything else, and that is something I find abhorrent.