Obama replacing troops with private contractors?

[medeak]

reprinted from Russia News....???

http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/20561/Private_Contractors_Replacing_American_Troops_in_Both_Wars

[medeak]

1. mercenaries to replace US troops

Mercenaries to replace U.S. troops in Iraq
A report says that Iraq and Afghanistan are being left to mercenaries, as the number of private contractors in both countries has risen by over a quarter – all with the approval of the White House.
It has been revealed the number of private security contractors working for the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan has greatly increased by up to 30% since President Obama came to office.
While troops are being pulled out, a Pentagon report says that the number of contractors working for the US Defense Department has increased dramatically.
This figure has now swollen to 250,000 outsource personnel working for companies such as Blackwater and Triple Canopy, and this process could be called a “privatization of war”.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. This has been discussed here before. The number has risen due to the fact that not all contractors

were being counted during the Bush Administration. I'll see if I can find the post.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5771845&mesg_id=5771845

With a big thanks to Truth2Tell.

[medeak]

4. thanks so much for this..

was having a bit of a freak out

[Hannah Bell]

5. so are the contractors being sent home - since bushes policy was

an aberration?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. That's a different question. *THIS* OP was about Obama increasing the number of mercenaries in Iraq.

The question asked was answered.

[medeak]

7. good question! n/t

[Just-plain-Kathy]

8. I remember prior to the 2000 elections, a conservative neighbor of mine declared Clinton privitized

...our military. I set him straight by proving to him that it was Dick Cheney who privatized our military. He then shut me up when he reminded me that Clinton kept Cheney's policies.

Now Obama's making no "change".