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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:30 PM Original message |
"Substantial civilian military force on the ground in Iraq" |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know how many more oxymorans I can deal with. |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yeah. I guess a real candid disclosure whould have been: |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. And what kind of "rules of war" do they follow? |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 11:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. These rules -- ie, NONE |
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hexola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. "WWIII Incorporated" hard at work... |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
5. So when these A-Teams get smoked |
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Zookeeper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Important questions. How do we get the answers? n/t |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Heard that up to $15 Bn was budgeted for these guys |
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PfcHammer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. And how does BLS treat them |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I was wondering about that...n/t |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 01:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
22. I'm guessing Yes |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 01:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
26. Hi KleverKittie!! |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. Private Security Forces |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Are "Private Security Forces" (read for-PROFIT) covered by Geneva? |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Protocol I says mercenaries 'can be neither combatants nor POWs' |
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lolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Aren't they prohibited? |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 01:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
23. I'm curious....do these private sector military types |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. An even better question |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 11:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Actually... |
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leanings (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 03:11 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Too bad they're not mercenaries. |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 11:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Here's the exact info |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
14. As I said in the other thread, remember Dyncorp in Bosnia |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 11:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Pete and Repeat |
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mike1963 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-02-04 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
16. Our very own Republican Guard. This is what we are 'fighting' for? |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
21. gotta wonder how this makes our men and women in uniform feel . . . |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 01:39 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Good point, it must really piss-off GI's and military families. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 01:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. GIs and military families mostly over there are Guard and Reserves |
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laura888 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
28. "civilian military force" |
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laura888 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
29. kick! |
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Warren Stuart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
30. They don't abide by the same rules as the military |
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laura888 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-03-04 02:53 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. don't know that "famous case." do you have a link? n/t |
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