Saturday, September 19, 2009
Shopping in Baghdad
Now that half of the US troops in Iraq aren’t troops (they’re private mercenaries), supplying weapons has run into a snag. To get around the problem, private mercenary contractors are using US funds to shop for weaponry at open-air bazaars comprising the black market for weapons in Iraq. The obvious question, of course, is “Where are the black marketeers getting US weaponry to sell to US private mercenaries?”
