The death toll has risen, with six marines killed in action.
The Debt toll has also risen, as the Senate approved another $50,000,000,000.00 for the war, pushing the total over 350 Billion.
And the army, while still professing that they are not under undue stress, has announced that they want to restructure itself to put 40,000 more men into combat rolls.
This doesn't mean that want to add 40,000 troops. They want to eliminate 40,000 support positions and convert those slots to combat slots. Of course we will still need many of these support positions filled.
This is where the plans of the Bush administration appear. These will now be contracted out to the likes of Kellogg Brown and Root, and the various mercenary groups like Blackwater. Creating a much larger and now always deployed corporate armed force.
Does the US really need private armies?
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