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April 02, 2004

Will American troops die to avenge mercenary deaths?

Steve Gilliard

While everyone is chattering about mercinaries in Iraq, no one is drawing the obvious conclusion, American troops are going to get killed avenging mercenaries making 10 times more than they did for the same jobs. The poor grunts who have to go to Fallujah don't have fancy employment contracts and they don't walk around in civvies with M-4's. Yet, because some hired guns got killed, they're going to have to mount up for some dick swinging revenge raid.

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Posted by Norwood at April 2, 2004 02:46 PM
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