Michael Murry
Dogs of War, Inc.
Tue Apr 13, 2004 18:20
172.153.23.137

Dogs of War, Inc.
The Bush Administration never had, and indeed never COULD have had, sufficient armed forces for the invasion, occupation, administration, and "transformation" of a Middle Eastern nation surrounded by a sea of 5.5 billion sympathetic fellow Muslims.
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Nonetheless, in order to sell a confused and apathetic American public on their way-cool video-game war to make Dubya look less obviously stupid and incompetent, Bush administration neoconservative theorists and public relations bureaucracies (i.e., the American government) cooked up some neat Orwellian word magic to cover up this known deficiency in required resources.
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Instead of deploying the hundreds of thousands of needed troops (which the Congress would never have approved had Congress known about the true numbers) our primitive word magicians hired thousands of armed mercenaries to make up the troop deficit and called these mercenaries "contractors."
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Predictably, the technique fooled the American public which, after all, seemingly exists only for the purpose of lapping up lies, and the "contractors" went about enjoying the "excitement" of war as well as those hefty six figure salaries. The business of shooting unemployed Iraqis never seemed so profitable!
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Unfortunately for "contractors" everywhere, the ruse only fooled the somnambulant Americans (the true target of the euphemisms) back home. It didn't fool the unemployed and terrorized Iraqis who eventually caught some of these Dogs of War and got in a little gruesome payback.

Orwellian euphemisms do have their real-world consequences.

Of course, American generals could not let the deaths of armed mercenaries go "unavenged." Somehow, American generals decided that their poorly paid and overstressed PFCs should get killed in a totally unneccessary fight whose nebulous aim, the American generals told the world, involved "teaching" the "Iraqis" a "lesson."
Calling mercenaries "contractors" has just resulted in the Iraqi people seeing every "contractor" a mercenary.
Way to go, generals.
You've just put a target on the backs of every food-service and laundry supplier in Iraq.
Where does America get these generals, anyway: Dogs of War, Inc.?

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