(h/t Dawn Patrol) The ever vigilant and relentlessly under-informed Huff Po has pointed out the shocking statistic that the number of DoD contractors in Afghanistan outnumbers the uniformed forces. Holy sheep *** Batman, Halliburton and Blackwater gone wild! Well, ummm not so fast. A look at the statistics that they cite does bear out the fact that by head count there are more contractors than troopies. But let's look at those numbers again, of the total 68,000 some contractors more than 51,000 of them are Afghan local nationals. The horror! Wicked DoD and those rapacious defense companies are giving tens of thousands of Afghans good jobs at decent wages, how dare they? That will never help us convince them that we have their best interests at heart. I bet they even give some contracts to local companies in a blatant attempt to corrupt them. I demand Congressional investigations.
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Nov 16 2009, 11:52 PM
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