Fallugah, Where was our military?

[slater71]

Has anyone asked this? I mean they blew up two cars, burned them, took the bodies out and dragged them in the street and then hung them from a bridge. No military in site or Iraq police for that matter were in site. Is that strange or is it so bad there that we can`t go in there?

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. If the victims were employees.....

...of one of the many private military companies active in the area, they were right there, on the spot.

The distinction between these mercenaries and the uniformed forces of the US is a specious one. Welcome to the next frontier of privatization... defense.

If it's any consolation, the families of the $70,000/yr mercenaries are probably better situated than the families of the $16,000/yr grunts who bought it across town the same day.

[Aidoneus]

2. they are afraid to be inside the city

positions there were withdrawn weeks ago, only on the fringes of the city do the invaders feel secure enough to be. Aside from that, the puppet police are too weak to do the occupation forces' dirty work without getting themselves into trouble.

[coltman]

3. as I read the crap the media hands us...

day time sorties are done in armor.Night time sorties are done en mass.We own the night and the ground our armor is on.

[greenman3610]

4. all according to plan

This is all according to plan.
The deal is, pull US troops out,
use Iraqi police and mercs as
in effect, sandbags, to take the hits so
we seem to cut casualties.

[Don Claybrook]

12. What is it again that we own?

I must be missing the finer points of your post.

[coltman]

13. in other words.........nothing!

[Don Claybrook]

14. Thanks for the clarification...I'm running slow this A.M. n/t

[coltman]

15. obviously....

no prob been there done that.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Get Out The Paint Brushes....

Falujah...Mogidishu...

Now let's draw the connections. Who got us into both messes? Let's see the wingnuts blame both on Clenis.

Watch the media paint these mercenaries as poor civilians...like the missionaries...just unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time as these animals attacked. It's like coverage of a wild animal or killer bee attack. It just seemed to happen...no discussion on what's really going on there and why the tensions are as extreme as they are.

Our poor kids are stuck in this mess...and it's getting deeper. Sadly, the sheeple are gonna need a bit more blood and closer to home. Falujah took second, third and ninth place to MJ prancing around Capitol Hill and that dog chasing the non-existant suspect in Madison.

[izzie]

6. See the site with Robert Fisk and see what he said

Behind sand bags with these hires army in front of them and the Iraq police in front of those people. Bush wants no body bags as Mother Barbara said we do not wish to see them.And somehow we are paying for this corp army with our tax money. And yet still men in the army get killed. Friend that comes daily to care for her horse, sister 's husband was killed this week. He was in Iraq 2 weeks and they have a baby less than a year. Life is great under Bush.

[KharmaTrain]

8. We're Hearing Less And Less

March was the deadliest month, yet our media trumpeted the "one year anniversary" and the regime's puppets in Congress passed a resolution praising this evil cabal. It makes one sick.

I imagine we don't hear much about the mercenaries and "private security" types in Iraq as they fall outside the perview of the military and their corpses can be quickly and quietly spirited out of Iraq. Anyone have more info about these companies?

[matcom]

7. i heard there were a handful of Iraqi Police at the scene

mind you 'police' trained and inserted by us. anyway according to reports they turned and fled.

[Mari333]

9. Dead soldiers do not help Bu$h re selection chances

ergo, the admin has to use your already stretched tax dollars to pay for his little occupation by hiring mercenaries.
If he steals it again, the draft will be back and then Katy Bar the Door for the thousands of dead civilians and soldiers who will be forced to fight PNAC wars.
www.bushdraft.com
fucking little kids who play war games in the WH and give themselves adolescent names like "Vulcans".
They need to get bitch slapped upside the head by the Grandmothers and Mothers of America.

[markses]

10. The US has lost the war in the Sunni triangle

Most of the towns suffer only intermittent patrolling from US forces, and are - for all intents and purposes - under insurgent control both militarily and politically.

[KG]

11. why would mercenaries need military protection?

they had their own guns and flak vests.