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This... is positively STAGGERING. A stunning example that the proverbial right hand knows not what the left hand does. Or is it just simply that they don't WANT to know??
The US government has no precise figure for how many contractors are employed in Iraq and Afghanistan, inviting the risk of fraud and security threats, a US commission warned on Monday.
"It is both peculiar and troubling that eight years after the overthrow of the Taliban regime, in Afghanistan, and more than six years since the overthrow of Baathist regime in Iraq, we still don't know how many contractor employees are working in the region," said Michael Thibault, co-chairman of the commission on wartime contracting.
The independent commission found that "there is no single source for a clear, complete and accurate picture of contractor numbers, locations, contracts and cost," Thibault said at a commission hearing.
"How can contractors be properly managed if we aren't sure how many there are, where they are and what are they doing?"
Read the whole article here: rawstory.com/2009/11/com...afghanistan/
The US government has no precise figure for how many contractors are employed in Iraq and Afghanistan, inviting the risk of fraud and security threats, a US commission warned on Monday.
"It is both peculiar and troubling that eight years after the overthrow of the Taliban regime, in Afghanistan, and more than six years since the overthrow of Baathist regime in Iraq, we still don't know how many contractor employees are working in the region," said Michael Thibault, co-chairman of the commission on wartime contracting.
The independent commission found that "there is no single source for a clear, complete and accurate picture of contractor numbers, locations, contracts and cost," Thibault said at a commission hearing.
"How can contractors be properly managed if we aren't sure how many there are, where they are and what are they doing?"
Read the whole article here: rawstory.com/2009/11/com...afghanistan/
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Re: U.S. Gov't Has No Idea Number of War Zone Contractors It Employs
Mon, November 2, 2009 - 9:51 PMAs the saying goes among radicals, "if your not outraged, your not paying attention." -
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Re: U.S. Gov't Has No Idea Number of War Zone Contractors It Employs
Mon, November 2, 2009 - 10:27 PMMaybe I *am* paying attention, and always have. Maybe that's the problem. It's hard to *stay* outraged when every day, every facet of life offers something more to be outraged over. When each thing tops the other. When not one is changeable.... and nothing, absolutely nothing, can be done by the individual.
Shit, I'd say most real radicals are too busy just trying to get by. And politics is such a circus - who can stay mad at all those red-painted, smiling faces? Such a happy time, such a happy world, you give me 10 reasons why my callous of apathy doesn't serve me better than a raw wound capable at any time of setting my emotions into chaos and despair. -
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Re: U.S. Gov't Has No Idea Number of War Zone Contractors It Employs
Mon, November 2, 2009 - 10:39 PMYou, know, there are times that I wish I could remain angry. Then there are times when I do say something to liberals, and they know that the truth hurts so much that they rather pass on hearing it. And they know that much of it is caused by the brainwashed masses.
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Re: U.S. Gov't Has No Idea Number of War Zone Contractors It Employs
Tue, November 3, 2009 - 5:39 AM<Maybe I *am* paying attention, and always have. Maybe that's the problem. It's hard to *stay* outraged when every day, every facet of life offers something more to be outraged over.>
It's a form of PTSD.
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