Reply #57: No way No chance [View All]

[Djinn]

For the same reasons a few people have stated before - it's not the risk of dying that would stop me it's the immorality of foreigners taking ALL the jobs in Iraq when they have an educated unemployed population.

The occupation is only part of the problem - the privatisation and theft of their resources is another

Why on earth would any Iraqi thank you for this??? You would be working for a company that will be sending 100% of their profits out of Iraq and you'd be just another looter doing the same with your pay. Why hire someone who needs to be paid twice as much as a local, doesn't understand the country and doesn't speak the language (btw Arabic isn't all that easy to "pick up" speaking as someone who also has a flair for languages and has had lessons in Arabic, it's a hard language for someone's who's first language is English - besides which inflection would you learn, Nadji, Judeo Iraqi, Mesopotamian? not to mention the fact that in various areas of Iraq many people speak Kurdi, Farsi, Azerbaijani, Assyrian and a handful of other languages - do think you could "pick up a little" of all of them.

I honestly can not beleive you would even consider it - you don't need to be a soldier or even armed to be a mercenary.