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Old 12-23-2005, 11:58 AM
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Interesting that late in the essay a comparison is made of our government's utilization of mercenaries to US corporations' oursourcing of domestic jobs. Hogwash!!! US companies export jobs to other countries largely due to the extrodinarily lower prevailing wages in those countries. Clearly that is not the case with the mercenaries (or whatever euphemistic appelation you may wish to apply to them) operating in Iraq.

Someone out there, in a position to quietly make these types of calls, is making them (likely, IMO) either to delay the implementation of a draft, or in the personal financial interest of a select few - or both. In addition, tracking the deaths of "civilians" is more difficult, making it less likely the media will report them as casualties in this conflict. If these casualties were US military members - and therefore officially counted as casualities, and reported by the media - the American people would tire even more quickly at the number of lives being lost.

I could go on about "friendly" engagements, and who's actually working for whom. I will not.
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