Speaking with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's "Hardball" on October 2, Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) gets his facts wrong on private security contractors in Iraq. He says they outnumber American troops, citing the figure of 180,000 contractors versus 161,000 troops.In fact, the number of private security contractors in Iraq is about 25,000. The remainder are unarmed civilians who provide food, sanitation, logistics, maintenance, construction and other services. Most of the contractors are not US nationals, and many are Iraqis.
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Very few are Iraqis because they might kill you. Many are poor Phillippino or Nepalese laborers conned into believing they're getting high paying jobs in Kuwait or Jordan at fancy hotels who are then shanghaied into working in Iraq as indentured servants building the Green Zone embassy or doing scutwork on US bases. They get paid and treated like garbage while two or three contractors and subs get a juicy cut.
The Bush Administration is making enemies for us all over the world with this crap. Dispicable.
That's not getting it wrong. You are playing dumb semantic games with the words Webb used.
Black Water is the term used in water reuse and reclamation for liquid contaminated with fecal matter. Was this done deliberately?
Today's Congressional hearings would seem to support that belief.
Most of the contractors are not Iraqis. Most of the labor contractors use they imported, from Kuwait, India, Pakistan, etc.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
"180,000 contractors versus 161,000 troops.
In fact, the number of private security contractors in Iraq is about 25,000."
Those are two different numbers, one is the number of CONTRACTORS, one is the number of CONTRACTORS THAT PROVIDE PRIVATE SECURITY.
So his numbers aren't wrong, you are just dishonest.
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