Reply #8: I heard yesterday that it was estimated at about 100,000 mercs [View All]

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I wonder just how many Americans in all are over there. Half a million? One million?

You've got the 120,000-130,000 military, thousands of mercenaries, State Department staff at one of the world's largest embassies, fleets of truck drivers, construction workers building bunkers and concrete walls around our bases, oil company workers trying to keep the oil flowing, businessmen from a multitude of enterprises, religious workers and missionaries, armies of journalists from every major U.S. newspaper and TV network. I'm sure there are more types of Americans over there that I haven't mentioned.