15 November 2010
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U S Foreign Policy:
President Obama met his July 2010 deadline for removing all combat troops from Iraq. Non-combattant military personnel remaining number slightly over 56,000 men and women. Won't this end the US occupation of Iraq?
Iraqi matters are now the responsibility of the State Department, as part of its foreign policy portfolio. By the way, WAR is an integral, unique aspect of foreign policy though in America, we charge the Department of Defense, formerly War) with conducting this violent form of foreign policy.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, in a recent funding request to Congress, has asked for additional monies to pay for the estimated 111,000 military/security contractors who she has decided are needed to secure US diplomatic locations throughout Iraq. During her unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in 2008, then-Senator Clinton (D-NY) was against the military by contract that many refer to as mercenaries. The New York Times reported on August 19, 2010, the following State Department plans for its diplomatic mission to Iraq:
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President Obama met his July 2010 deadline for removing all combat troops from Iraq. Non-combattant military personnel remaining number slightly over 56,000 men and women. Won't this end the US occupation of Iraq?
Iraqi matters are now the responsibility of the State Department, as part of its foreign policy portfolio. By the way, WAR is an integral, unique aspect of foreign policy though in America, we charge the Department of Defense, formerly War) with conducting this violent form of foreign policy.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, in a recent funding request to Congress, has asked for additional monies to pay for the estimated 111,000 military/security contractors who she has decided are needed to secure US diplomatic locations throughout Iraq. During her unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in 2008, then-Senator Clinton (D-NY) was against the military by contract that many refer to as mercenaries. The New York Times reported on August 19, 2010, the following State Department plans for its diplomatic mission to Iraq:
Around 2004-5, contractor military personnel were earning around $100,000 per deployment. Just saying that were true, and without overhead costs, the Defense Department would have been paying $11,100,000 to Haliburton subsidiary KBR and Blackrock. None of these reports contain information about facilities construction and maintenance for the State Department's objectives.To move around Iraq without United States troops, the State Department plans to acquire60 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, called MRAPs, from the Pentagon; expandits inventory of armored cars to 1,320; and create a mini-air fleet by buying three planes toadd to its lone aircraft. Its helicopter fleet, which will be piloted by contractors, will grow to29 choppers from 17. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/world/middleeast/]
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