Karzai on "This Week": Our private military contractors are "terroristic groups at nighttime."

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Apparently, our private contractors are terrorists - a grim reminder that the CIA that originally funded bin Laden.

More proof that our leadership is taking us down the wrong path and that this war is for profit only.

We are not helping, but hurting America by these foolish wars - the only people being helped are the war profiteers.


OUT OF IRAQISTAN NOW!



http://thepage.time.com/transcript-karzai-on-this-week-august-22-2010/

"AMANPOUR: Well, let me take a few of those things you've just mentioned.

The private contractors, you have called and your office has called for them to be disbanded by the end of this year, in the next four months. That's something like 30,000 private contractors who are providing security. Are you standing by that declaration you want them out by the end of this year?

KARZAI: Definitely, ma'am. This is a topic that I've been engaging with, with our allies for the last at least four years very intensively. Finally, I began to conclude after a lot of consideration and on a good ground of solid information that the more we wait, the more we lose.

Therefore, we have decided in the Afghan government to bring an end to the presence of these security companies who are running a parallel security structure to the Afghan government, who are not only causing corruption in this country, but who are looting and stealing from the Afghan people, who are causing a lot of harassment to our civilians who we don't know if they are security companies at daytime and then some of them turn into terroristic groups at nighttime.

They are wasting billions of dollars of resources and they are definitely an obstruction, an impediment in a most serious matter to the growth of Afghanistan's security institutions, the police and the army.

AMANPOUR: Do you mean all of them? Do you mean even the ones who protect you, who protect military bases, who protect diplomats as well and aid convoys?

KARZAI: Well, we will -- we will provide a basis for those security companies who are providing protection to embassies and to aid organizations within their compounds and who escort diplomats or representatives of foreign governments in Afghanistan from place to place.

But we will definitely not allow them to be on the roads, in the bazaars, in the streets, on the highways, and we will not allow them to provide protection to supply lines that is the job of the Afghan government and the Afghan police."

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1. of course they are. They have an interest in keeping it going

the more chaos and melee, the more they are needed.

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2. That's right. Those who profit from fear, war, and death, simply want it to continue.

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3. What will the mercs do if they're brought home?

Will the USA have to be in successive wars to keep these men employed? Or will they find something else to do?

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4. It is my understanding that many of them are from

foreign countries, some from Afghanistan.

As far as domestically, Blackwater/Xe was used in Katrina against the US people...

"As business leaders and government officials talk openly of changing the demographics of what was one of the most culturally vibrant of America's cities, mercenaries from companies like DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut and an Israeli company called Instinctive Shooting International (ISI)" http://www.alternet.org/katrina/25858/

And, of course, BP hired private forces to protect themselves from journalists in the BP oil disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHnStD690U

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5. And democracy now had a story about them spraying dispersants today. Nt