Afghan Report Revives Concerns About Scrutiny of Private Security Firms

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/world/asia/24afghan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Afghan%20report%20revives%20concerns%20about%20scrutiny%20of%20private%20security%20firms&st=cse

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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Subject: re: Afghan Report Revives Concerns About Scrutiny of Private Security Firms
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
   Few Americans seemed to care that president Obama excluded private
contractors when he promised to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. By the
end of last year, our 180,000 contractors on the ground there
outnumbered our uniformed troops almost four to one. Shall we blame
president Karzai for not being as easily duped? Did he agree to
participate in the Cheney/Rumsfeld con game when he accepted our aid
money?
Barry Levine