I'm pretty sure we have many blackwater mercenaries in Iraq today

[madokie]

and I suspect many are being wounded and killed as are Troops are. Why are we not reading or hearing about them? Is the disparity between what we read and hear on the number of causalities so different from what is really happening that it is emboldening the Iraqi's to keep pushing on at pushing us out?

[Demeter]

1. Some Real Hard Data on Blackwater Mercenaries Wouldn't Go Amiss

It might just blow the whole damn war out of the war, sky and land.

[SpiralHawk]

7. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK (safeguarding republicon War Profits)

Private Enterprise Can Do It Better (boosting republicon war profits, that is)

[Ganja Ninja]

2. They're not all Americans and even if they are I don't care.

They knew the job was dangerous when they took it. If they don't value their lives why should we? They're working for a criminal gang as far as I'm concerned.

[madokie]

4. I'm not feeling sorry for them cause I agree with you pretty much

what I wonder is if the difference in what we're being told and what they're seeing is so much different that they know we don't have the stomach for the actual numbers. To the Iraqi people I'm sure usarmy or blackwater matters not to them. is what I'm asking/saying

[Wilber_Stool]

3. There are at least

750 dead mercenaries. That number comes from OSHA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That makes about 4,000 dead.

[madokie]

5. thanks for the number, I never thought to look there

[sinkingfeeling]

6. This is probably the closest you'll come to finding a list.

http://icasualties.org/oif/Civ.aspx

[madokie]

8. thank you. I save that for later reference's

[antigop]

9. Time Magazine: Victims of an Outsourced War

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1599682,00.html

>>
In many ways, Katy Helvenston is like any mother who has lost a son in Iraq. She talks to others who have survived their kids. She wonders whether she could have done more to keep him out of harm's way. She breaks down in tears at random intervals.

But Helvenston has problems that military mothers do not have. Her son Scott, who was killed in 2004 at the age of 38, was neither a soldier nor, really, a civilian. He was an ex--Navy seal who worked for a private security firm called Blackwater. Instead of a headstone at Arlington, he has his name etched in a rock at Blackwater's corporate campus in North Carolina. And Helvenston says that three years later, she still has no real answers from the company about what led to her son's death--a death that she believes was due in part to the company's negligence.
>>

[madokie]

10. sad isn't it. the agony of the gop war thats being managed by the bush* cabal

is unaccountability