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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=29338" target="_blank">BLACKWATER : THE SHADOW WAR!</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/12-uncle-sam" target="_blank">Uncle Sam</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=a2zme" target="_blank">a2zme</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-01-22 10:36:07

[a2zme]

The privatization of the world continues!

[philowl]

The US Congress has been trying for 30 years to get a handle on Pentegon spending, with no success. It's a vast sink-hole for money, and the private armaments corporations, with the help of retired generals and admirals, are robbing the US people. They are hired killers of foreign peoples.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Might just be me but any nation using mercenaries is just a scary thought. Do these guys have to follow the same rules as the military?

[sasquatch2]

Mercenaries?

If a country can buy weapon systems from another country and pay for instruction in their use it is a short step to mentoring and in some cases contracting officers.

I had no problem working for Halliburton in Croatia. Mentoring. Security wasn't a problem. A company of legionnaires was nearby...

I consider it to be criminal for civilian contractors to be driving unarmoured trucks (in iraq) with no means of self defence.

Blackwater is another matter. I don't class them mercenaries so much as loose cannons. They don't seem too popular anywhere.