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Senator Sanders and Rep. Schakowsky Sponsor Legislation to Phase Out Private Security Contractors In War Zones
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Isn't the use of mercenaries already banned by international treaties (which have been signed and ratified by the appropriate US bodies) and therefore already illegal under US law?
Why do they need a new bill to outlaw what is already illegal?
And why does adding ANOTHER law against it make it any surer it wont happen in future, when the SAME body passing this law adamantly refuses to uphold its collective and individual responsibilities and oaths to uphold/defend the current law(s) of the land?
I ask only for information ...
Quote: "Isn't the use of mercenaries already banned by international treaties (which have been signed and ratified by the appropriate US bodies) and therefore already illegal under US law?"
The answer ideally is yes, but I don't know if it's accurate.
Quote: "Why do they need a new bill to outlaw what is already illegal?"
Assuming the laws you referred to in your opening question already exist, maybe a new bill is required to both remind everyone about and to reinforce the existing laws. Enforcement is clearly needed and in relation to more issues than the use of mercenaries, too. And there seem to be an awful lot of "sleepy heads" in Washington who need to be woken up. The new bill then shouldn't be needed, but reality is such that certain actions are required when they ideally wouldn't be.
Mike Corbeil
All contractors doing work in war zones that should be done by the military should be removed and the work performed by the military. The following video will help make this need very clear and I got the link through a posting of the video at www.globalresearch.ca on Feb. 22nd. The video's nearly a few years old, if not older, today, but it's surely as relevant now as it was when it was first made.
"Iraq for Sale: Banned Excerpts" (4:37)
from bravenewfilms, May 9 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cJlJudDtVE
Quote:
http://iraqforsale.org/ On May 10th, 2007, this video was banned in Congress
Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show.
Republicans insisted this not be shown.
End quote
You'll all get a real "kick" out of this video; believe me, you'll love it. This is meant a little sarcastically, but then when I come to think about it, you will love the video as it provides brief statements from various interviewed people, some U.S. Iraq War veterans, or active-duty soldiers, as well as former contract workers for KBR/Halliburton, who really make it clear that the government of the USA, the White House, Congress and Senate, were extremely pilfering U.S. taxpayer dollars and that it wasn't only KBR, Halliburton, CACI, Titan, and other corporations that were guilty in this RACKET and high treason. Actually, I'm not sure that CACI and Titan are corporations of the USA and if they're not, then subtract treason in their cases. In that case, these corporations would only be guilty of extreme robbery of U.S. taxpayer dollars. KBR and Halliburton, however, are guilty of both, as were the White House administration, Congress and, I suppose anyway, the Senate.
The "security" contractors, that is, mercenaries, should be the first ones removed from war zones, but use of the other contractors also needs to end when the work should be done by the U.S. military. And there's perhaps nothing wrong with ceasing use of [all] of the contractors, the mercenaries as well as th others, at the same time, simultaneously. If it's not feasible to do that, however, then the mercenaries, that is, murderers, need to be cut, first.