Marines now abusing Marines

[Walt Starr]

Contract workers accuse Marines of abuse

By Griff Witte
The Washington Post
Published June 10, 2005


WASHINGTON -- U.S. Marines and employees of a contractor working for the military in Iraq offer sharply contrasting versions of a recent incident in which Marines in Fallujah detained 19 of the company's employees for three days after saying the contractors fired at them.

The contractors say they did not, and some now allege that the Marines physically abused them during their confinement.

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At one point during the contractors' confinement, Schopper said, a Marine asked, "How does it feel to be a rich contractor now?"

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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has begun an investigation into the initial incident and the contractors' allegations, a Navy spokesman said.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0506...

Now you have Bush policies of outsourcing military functions to contractors in Iraq resulting in current Marines who are rightfully frustrated and angry about contractors making fortunes off the blood of servicemen abusing former Marines.

Semper Fi.

[kodi]

1. apparently our volunteer army resents the privileges of our private army.

why does a military created to protect capitalism resent it?

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Can we call the 'contractors' what they are?

They are mercenaries, armed by private corporations and not answerable to the military chain of command.

There were stories of 'armed men in white SUVs' such as the mercs use shooting up the town.

Whether it was careless disregard of the civilians or deliberate attacks meant to intimidate, what they are doing is making the job harder for the Marines.

If our boys are really there to restore order and justice, it seems that out of control mercs is not a bad place to start.