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Jeremy Scahill Testifies on Defense Contracting, 5.10.2007

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There are over 120,000 private contractors currently deployed in Iraq and yesterday, a House panel put some of the harshest criticisms of this privatization of war into the congressional record for the first time. The House Appropriations subcommittee on defense held a hearing on Thursday about defense contracting. Testifying before the panel was journalist Jeremy Scahill and filmmaker Robert Greenwald.Jeremy is a Democracy Now! correspondent and an investigative reporter for The Nation magazine. He is author of the book "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army." In his opening remarks, he spoke about the lack of oversight of the tens of thousands of contractors deployed in Iraq.

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Uploaded: May 11, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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Tags: Blackwater  contractors  Erik  Iraq  mercenary  Prince  profiteers  Scahill  

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djtwostroke (August 11, 2008 at 1:07 am)
this isn't a war, how do you state to this?? this is a "war" against terrorism, terrorism is an idea how do you fight against that. You who are cheering the war are cheering your own downfall. Ron Paul viva la revolution!!
luzeos (August 6, 2008 at 1:31 am)
Al Qaeda are not Us contractors or citizens hired by the US. You fucking moron, how the fuck are you gonna compare blackwater to fucking Hajis? huh?? stupid fuck. The point is that these blackwater fucks who break the law should be investigated and held to the UCMJ, and they will.
grassyknollkiller (July 23, 2008 at 4:43 pm)
Hmmm...only 6 deaths caused by Blackwater 'mercenaries" in just 2 months?But where is the liberal outrage at far more deaths in 2 months caused by foreign fighter "mercenaries" of Al Qaeda and muslim religous fanatics that pour across the borders?Blackwater killing a few Iraq civilians by accident is horrible. But foreign mercenaries blowing up innocent men, women, and children on the street and in the markets is A-OK.Yea...the typical lib shit, as usual.
grassyknollkiller (July 23, 2008 at 4:29 pm)
This is another lib blathering idiot. You never hear these guys talking about the atrocities of the home-grown muslim terroists.He must then identify with them. He keeps his own wife/girlfriend in the bedroom/kitchen. He probably likes 'honor' killing and female genital cutting. And his bitch has get his permission to leave the home.
butteschool (July 22, 2008 at 1:19 pm)
Do you (guru7846) seriously believe the Osama is the perpetrator of the attack on 9/11? see Zeitgiest Movie (google it and you can watch it for free)Don't you see?....contract soldier have no allegiance to this country. They are fighting for the money they make. Ok, maybe some are fighting simply because they are sick psychopathic individuals. How long will it be until Blackwater is contracted by some greedy power-hungry faction...oh wait..they already have! It's called "War Profiteering".
mrKurgan1 (July 22, 2008 at 7:59 am)
how old are you? do you have an education? get one you fool...
mrKurgan1 (July 22, 2008 at 7:58 am)
you really don't get it do you? i think you will find that jeremy scahill has done all the research that you will need to understand that the US has a real problem. sadly the problem stems from people (like you perhaps?) who think they have the right to lawlessness during active service. i suggest you do as you preach and get the real answers, you'd be suprised... enough said.
ishmaiden (July 10, 2008 at 8:10 pm)
The only real thing you got right was the overbearing Politicians. The problem is there was one major reason and that was the USSR. We couldn't hit certain sites if they had Soviet advisor's present. If we struck and killed them then it would heavy pressure on Moscow to respond to loss of Soviet men at the hands of Americans. At that time we just come off of over ting a nuclear war with them, so no reasonable Politician in DC would risk that again and put the handcuffs on.
ishmaiden (July 10, 2008 at 8:03 pm)
My father did 4 tours there and you don;t know what the fuck you're talking about. The US negotiated a cease fire with the north and withdrew it's combat forces. it took another 2 years for the North to over run the South. The problem was that the South didn't want to fight and many in the South Supported unification, even it was under Communist rule. Also, the Vietnamese people had been fighting for a very long time and were highly organized. My dad was a tunnel rat and can tell that.
guru7846 (June 17, 2008 at 9:48 am)
if you really want to know what happened, join the ranks, find out for yourself,and stop posting useless comment entries about shit you hear on this site, do some real research. start with frontline read the interviews and backgrounds, then research the war by other means


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