In privatized US war, foreigners do most of dying (9 civilian contractors per week)

[Barrett808]

Source: Reuters

In privatized US war, foreigners do most of dying
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - The war in Iraq is killing nine civilian contractors a week on average, roughly three times the rate of last year, and U.S. government statistics show that non-Americans do most of the dying.

The contractors -- mostly Iraqis and nationals from more than 30 developing nations -- perform jobs from guarding senior U.S. officials to translating, cooking meals, driving trucks, cleaning toilets and servicing weapons systems and computers.

For every American civilian killed in Iraq in the first four months of this year, according to the statistics, four foreign contract workers died.

Official figures show that 916 civilian contractors died from the beginning of the U.S.-led war in March 2003 to April 2007 -- at a steadily accelerating pace.

Of those killed, 224 were U.S. citizens, according to a count provided by the Department of Labor to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR).

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23195239.htm

[rocktivity]

1. Well, that's what being a mercenary is all about

You makes your money, but you takes your chances.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Acadia Blue]

2. The private military costs more and does not have the ethics requirements

of the national military. I think they should not even exist. We need our own loyal, law bound, ethical military.

[libodem]

3. exactly

Nice to meet you, Acadia Blue. What you said!

[ShortnFiery]

4. F**k this WAR against "a tactic" ... I'm NOT at war. Please refuse to buy into this BIG LIE? n/t

[youngdem]

5. Mercenaries should be banned from service for the US

It disgraces us all.

If enough Americans won't stand up for a given fight in the US Army, perhaps the cause isn't noble enough?

I have no sympathy for the mercenaries.

They got paid to die.

Idiots.

[saigon68]

7. When you work for the Quisilings

You get what you deserve.

Look what the French and Belgian Resistance did to collaborators in WW 2

[acmavm]

6. I don't know what this says about my character (or maybe lack of) but

I don't care. I do not care.

They decided to roll those old dice. They gamble and lose, well tough shit.