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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

The Candidates’ Positions on Private Security Contractors

http://www.propublica.org/article...private-security-contractors-718/

Excerpt:

Though the candidates don’t have kind words for security contractors, both have opposed calls to remove contractors from Iraq. "Here's the problem: we have 140,000 private contractors right there," Obama said in March. "So unless we want to replace all of or a big chunk of those with U.S. troops, we can't draw down the contractors faster than we can draw down our troops."

"I'd like it [the U.S. military to guard State Department officials in Iraq] but we don’t have enough," McCain said in October. "And I'd love to see pigs fly, but it ain't gonna happen."

(The article has links to the candidates' own words on this subject. --Mark)