Friday, September 02, 2011

WAR - The U.S. Mercenary Army (Logistics)

"Report Finds Fraud, Waste by War Contractors Costs Billions" PBS Newshour 9/1/2011

Excerpt

MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): Now, waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money during a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

After a three-year investigation, a Congressionally mandated commission yesterday issued a blunt finding, that between $31 billion and $60 billion has been misspent on the two wars. That's up to one-quarter of the entire $206 billion outsourced to private contractors for everything from security to food preparation to reconstruction projects.

The last 10 years have brought more than 260,000 such contractors to work in war zones, where they sometimes outnumbered soldiers. The panel urged quick action on 15 recommendations to tighten controls.



What do you expect? All that money will attract the sharks. Especially such a poorly regulated contracting.

This is also what happens when you privatize wars. What we really have is a government funded mercenary army performing logistic and guard duties. Since when are mercenaries to be trusted?

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