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To: geode00 who wrote (262449)	4/23/2008 11:14:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Although the numbers are murky at best, I believe there are as many private contractors Privatization of war would mean they would all be contractors. Well no not really, even that wouldn't be full privatization. Fully privatized they wouldn't be government contractors, but rather agents of some private organization waging the war. Also your argument wasn't the false "war has been privtized" or the true "we have more contractors compared to the number of soldiers than in the past", but the idea that conservatives push for and want the privatization of everything. The move to use more contractors isn't really an initiative from the conservatives, its a response to the fact that Clinton cut the size of the military so we have to use more contractors. Combined with the fact that contractors gives us a variable cost for war, instead of having to pay the full cost all the time, when we aren't at war all the time. Having more contractors however isn't "privatization of war", or "of everything"

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