Reply #56: So how many innocent civilians in some foreign country did they kill to

[Catrina]

get that big downpayment??? This is really scary and as far as I know, it is, or was, against the law.

This is the reason why Rumsfeld fought all those generals about sending in more troops. He knew he was going to hire an army of mercenaries.

I read that there are thousands of them in Iraq, and some of the military there, including the British say they are causing havoc, running around shooting civilians, involved in the torture scandal (Caci employees were involved in Abu Ghraib, that's why this crazy administration shut down the hearings and Dick Cheney swore at Sen. Leahy who wanted to keep them going).

I also read that many of this guns for hire are from the worst parts of the world.

Why would ANYONE with any decency, think it's okay to go kill people to get a down payment on a house?? Have we really sunk this low?? And where is Congress? They just gave these thieves billions more dollars to spend on this!!

This is the neocon plan for the future ~ private, brutal armies with no restrictions on them, bound by now law. The American people thought they were paying for the troops, but we know that much of that money went to this over 20,000, maybe more, private army of Negroponte and Rummy. These are truly evil, evil people. Way worse than I had imagined.

Torture too, is business to them ~ this is why they would not condemn it ~ the other thing is they can hide the death toll. Over 800 mercenaries (they hate to be called that, they think they are some kind of heroes) have died in Iraq, the last I heard, but the media never reports their deaths and the war profiteers don't have to pay any benefits once they're dead.

The complicity of the media is evicent when they continue to call them 'contractors'. I don't know how they sleep at night. The military will soon be obsolete, if someone doesn't take this country back ~ we are suffering under a coup d'etat. No wonder nothing we do has had any effect ~ :cry: