Carl, here is a post from Ihub that may interest you. I wonder what our very own contractor would say to it.
speaking of contractors
and the shell game that has them stepping in to take on tasks that otherwise would be performed by uniformed troops, in addition to permitting the government to claim it's reducing the U.S. occupying presence, it also enables the military to reduce to official dead and wounded count.
When we count dead, it's not just Iraqi civilians whom the media doesn't give a rip about bothering to report, it's ALL civilians. A guy on the military payroll gets killed it's a p.r. disaster. But train a civilian contractor to do his job, send the uniformed military guy home, and the civilian contrator gets killed doing the same job in a combat zone, paid by the same U.S. government to do it (albeit the cash is passed through a 3rd party corporation), and suddenly you've got a death that "doesn't count".
If we counted those numbers, we'd have close to another 500 dead added to the body count, as well as another 4,000 wounded.
BTW, all told we've got somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 civilian contractors in Iraq and crossing back and forth to Iraq.
realcities.com
As you would suspect. The more troops are replaced with outsourced "civilian" substitutes, the more the troop dead and wounded number will drop and the more the "civilian" number will rise.
"In the first 21 months of the war, 11 contractors were killed and 74 injured each month on average. This year, the monthly average death toll is nearly 20 and the average monthly number of injured is 243."
The American public is clueless about this shell game.
More here on the fallout from the shell game.
corpwatch.org |
