So are the PMC apologists done! Rumsfeld 20,000 are staying

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Because the private military companies are leaving our soldiers are staying longer.

The ones that Rummys bunch relied on to fight this war are cuttin and runnin!


Just a coincidence that the estimated number of "sercuity personnal" was between 15,000 and 20,000?

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1. The poor farmer was only doing his job

That's what someone here said about mercenaries. I wonder how he feels now?

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2. Deaths of scores of mercenaries not reported

Deaths of scores of mercenaries not reported


April 13 2004 at 01:21PM

Deaths of scores of mercenaries not reported



By Robert Fisk and Patrick Cockburn

Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.

Lieutenant-General Mark Kimmitt admitted on Tuesday that "about 70" American and other Western troops had died during the Iraqi insurgency since April 1 but he made no mention of the mercenaries, apparently fearful that the full total of Western dead would have serious political fallout.

He did not give a figure for Iraqi dead, which, across the country may be as high as 900.

Full total of Western dead would have serious political fallout
At least 18 000 mercenaries, many of them tasked to protect US troops and personnel, are now believed to be in Iraq, some of them earning $1 000 (about R6 300) a day. But their companies rarely acknowledge their losses unless - like the four American murdered and mutilated in Fallujah three weeks ago - their deaths are already public knowledge.

The presence of such large numbers of mercenaries, first publicised in The Independent two weeks ago, was bound to lead to further casualties.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&art_id=vn20040413132117588C3254...


It's only gonna take 30 years, dick