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ProRev: U.S. Hiring Mercenaries for Iraq
News Max Progressive Reviwe ^
| 02 APR 04
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 04/02/2004 4:54:03 PM PST by dts32041
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To: dts32041
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posted on
04/02/2004 5:48:17 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Some have elected to resist. Having made their decision, they are being engaged and destroyed.)
To: vbmoneyspender
If these guys are mercenaries, then every security guard in the country is a mercenary Ditto. The article is spin and has no basis.
To: dts32041
So when Hitlery went to Iraq is was as a mercenary? I thought so.
To: dts32041
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posted on
04/02/2004 5:55:54 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Some have elected to resist. Having made their decision, they are being engaged and destroyed.)
To: LoudRepublicangirl
I wonder how many "security" guys are contractors hired by CIA....
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posted on
04/02/2004 5:57:05 PM PST
by
dakine
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posted on
04/02/2004 6:09:48 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Some have elected to resist. Having made their decision, they are being engaged and destroyed.)
To: vbmoneyspender
Because he is reporting on what the loonie liberals are reading, since most of his readers don't read that crap. It's to inform us, let us know what the enemy is thinking.
How much more specific do I need to be?
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posted on
04/02/2004 6:12:55 PM PST
by
adam_az
(Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
To: Aura Of The Blade
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posted on
04/02/2004 6:26:29 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Some have elected to resist. Having made their decision, they are being engaged and destroyed.)
To: adam_az
Here is the link to
Newsmax. Neither the headline nor the article state that this is 'alleged' to be occurring. It is simply stated as a fact. Now compare the treatment of this allegation with the following piece by Limbacher entitled
Islamic Terror Ethicist Defends Fallujah Corpse Mutilations and the differences between the two articles should be fairly easy to see.
To: adam_az
To: vbmoneyspender
Although the media repeatedly refer to the men killed in the recent attack in Iraq as "civilian contractors," they were in fact mercenaries used as part of the U.S. government's outsourcing of jobs, reports the Progressive Review.
Go back to reading comprehension 101 or something, stop bugging me
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posted on
04/02/2004 6:31:49 PM PST
by
adam_az
(Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
To: adam_az
I think you missed the first part of the sentence where Limbacher writes:
they were in fact mercenaries
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posted on
04/02/2004 6:44:03 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Some have elected to resist. Having made their decision, they are being engaged and destroyed.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Heck, I'm just a freaking REMF!
I don't carry any firearms at all.
But I do have a very serious Leatherman! Watch out!
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posted on
04/02/2004 7:17:46 PM PST
by
Eagle Eye
( Saddam-Who's your Bagh-Daddy now?)
To: dts32041
This is a stupid article.
Many former special ops guys are hired by our own government in other agencies.
For them to be hired as security agents for organizations that provide other services in Iraq is not the definition of "mercenary."
A mercenary is "a soldier hired into foreign service (Merriam Webster.)"
These are our own soldiers, so they are not hired into foreign service. Additionally, they are not hired into "fighting" service. We do our own fighting quite nicely, thank you.
Check with Tommie Franks on that one.
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posted on
04/02/2004 9:22:56 PM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army and Proud of It!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4; Eagle Eye
To further define definitions from the Liberal Dictionary, people like EE and me aren't "mercenaries," but we are "war profiteers."
The libs have their insulting, snide little terms down to an art form.
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posted on
04/02/2004 9:49:05 PM PST
by
Allegra
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To: dts32041
What until Newsmax gets hold of anti-americn fodder on Dyncorp (Update: Now
CSC). When Plan Colombia gets hot this issue will dog Bush. Many within NGO's are CIA. Not really in Iraq or Afghanistan where we have full reign, but Africa and Central Asia.
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posted on
04/02/2004 9:52:37 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: Allegra
Right on! If you die as a GI doing KP, thats ok. IF however you're a contractor from Dick Cheney's former company, well your a war profiteer! IMO, I don't like the fact that military contractors get the hush treatment because they die too and should be on an official death roll if under US service.
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posted on
04/02/2004 10:08:21 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: xzins
However, a private company with world wide contacts and freedom to hire locals. If a foreigner is hired under US contract to say, defend convoys. Does that define a merc?
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posted on
04/02/2004 10:16:04 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: Aura Of The Blade
Dang! Nice list of job opportunity's, who said no new jobs had been created.
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