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video:Afghanistan becoming new Iraq - "Obama's War" (interview w/ Jeremy Scahill)

Seeded on Mon Jun 8, 2009 12:33 PM EDT
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iraq, afghanistan, politics, military, obama, bill-moyers, blackwater, private-contractors, jeremy-scahill, mcchrystal
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What we know for sure is that the fighting in Afghanistan is escalating. At least 21 thousand more American troops are going in and the number of private security contractors working for the military there jumped 29 percent in the last three months alone. Get this: there are now more private security contractors in Afghanistan than there are U.S. soldiers. And as of next year, according to new Pentagon documents, the war in Afghanistan will be costing more than the war in Iraq.

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gee who is paying for the 'private security contractors' ? And what kind of job are they doing?

It's just a few more billion.

    Reply#1 - Mon Jun 8, 2009 2:47 PM EDT
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