mrmuffins69
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06/05/2013 11:23 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan they are probably guarding drug fields like opium and weed
According to CRS, there are now 108,000 private workers in Afghanistan, a workforce that dwarfs the 65,700 American troops still stationed there. That means there are 1.6 contractors for every American soldier in Afghanistan. This is an increase from last month, when The Fiscal Times reported that there were 1.4 contractors per American soldier.
Given the size of the private forces, it's not surprising that CRS found that in recent years, the Defense Department spent more than any other agency to support contractor work.
"Over the last six fiscal years, DOD obligations for contracts performed in the Iraq and Afghanistan areas of operation were approximately $160 billion and exceeded total contract obligations of any other U.S. federal agency," CRS found.
The CRS report comes in the wake of a recent GAO report that the United States spent $195 billion for contractor services in 2010, or twice what it spent on contractors in 2001, before the start of the war in Afghanistan.
The increase in the contractors to troop ration is yet another indication that although the vast majority of troops are leaving Afghanistan, a private army will remain in the country for years. |
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06/05/2013 11:29 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan Contractor = Mercenary |
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06/05/2013 11:35 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan Contractor = Mercenary
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1854670 exactly, black water mercs now answer to monsanto. i can imagine some of the things they will do for a paycheck |
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06/06/2013 12:03 AM
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06/06/2013 12:04 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan They know damn well that the contractors are working with the poppy growing operations to transport heroin out of the middle east. Fackers. |
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06/06/2013 12:08 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan The only ray of sunshine in all this is we will end up with GMO poppies and they will kill their market. |
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06/06/2013 12:09 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan The only ray of sunshine in all this is we will end up with GMO poppies and they will kill their market.
Quoting: R&y lol |
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06/06/2013 12:11 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan Contractor = Mercenary
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1854670 exactly, black water mercs now answer to monsanto. i can imagine some of the things they will do for a paycheck  .... would probably make the mexican cartel look like boy scouts  "the truth will stand up, when nothing else will"
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06/06/2013 12:11 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan  shit - we need a distraction - quick |
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06/06/2013 12:12 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Shocker: Pentagon has no idea what 108,000 private contractors are doing or spending in Afghanistan shit - we need a distraction - quick lol again |
