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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9014)4/3/2004 10:48:52 PM
From: Ron   of 20773
 
Yes, the US military is "outsourcing" a lot of it's own work these days. The civilians who were unfortunately killed at Fallujah, were recently retired military, who came back as taxpayer-supported consultants. It is a shame they were ambushed and killed, but for all intents and purposes, they were fulfilling a military mission. Next, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the U.S. "outsourcing" more military/policing duties around the world to paid mercenaries. After all, lots of third world folks work cheap.
The United States, for many years had no use for mercenaries. In part, because a group of mercenaries called "Hessians" from Germany, comprised a large part of the British Army sent to put down the American Revolution.
You don't hear much about the Hessians in the history books.
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