Transferring cost of war to Latin America is morally, politically wrong

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/01/mai05022.html


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Subject: Transferring cost of war to Latin America is morally, politically wrong (Miami Herald)

Now U.S. officials seem to have hit on a new strategy to minimize U.S. casualties: recruit people from Latin America to do some of the fighting. A Dec. 9 Washington Post story reports that two U.S. private security firms, under contract to the Pentagon, are recruiting in El Salvador for people to do guard duty and other security work in Iraq. And a Dec. 12 report from El Tiempo in Bogota says that a major U.S. contractor is recruiting retired Colombian military officers to work in Iraq. Salvadorans and Colombians are apparently being recruited to guard embassies and other public buildings in Baghdad, protect oil and gas pipelines and provide security.

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they don't need a draft

wonder how much money they are using for bait - or is it citizenship if you make it back alive.

[Tinoire]

1. It's embarrassing what we've come to. n/t

[The White Tree]

2. Didn't we do something like this during the civil war?

I remember a scene in the movie "Gangs of New York" where they would show Irish imigrants coming off the boats and immediately being enlisted in the Union Army.

I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.