Recent Discoveries

by Maurice
(Oklahoma)

As we can see by recent news events, several civilian contractors have been found. At least their bodies have been found minus the fingers that were cut off.

They have identifed three and if I read correctly they have three more they are working on.

Back in 2004 the military started taking DNA samples from civilian contractors for this very reason.

Soldiers are dying but so are civilians. It is just not tracked or reported as much by the media. I guess it is okay for a civilian contractor to die but not a soldier.

I took the following off of an MSN site:

353 Number of civilian contractors working for the U.S. government who were killed in Iraq in 2007, a 17 percent increase over 2006.
1,123 Number of U.S. civilian contractors who have died in Iraq since the war started in March 2003.*

901 Number of U.S. troops who died in Iraq in 2007, the highest total for any year since the war started and a 10 percent increase over 2006.

3,954 Number of U.S. troops that have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion began.*

* Through Dec. 31, 2007, the latest figures available.

Sources: U.S. Labor Department, icasualties.org and Houston Chronicle research


This by Oliver North:

"In keeping with tradition, the American soldier's next of kin will be notified by his service, his body will be escorted home on an Angel Flight and at his funeral, a military honor guard will solemnly present his family with a carefully folded American flag and a Purple Heart Medal on which the profile of George Washington appears. The U.S. civilian contractor killed by the same indirect fire as the U.S. soldier will be accorded none of these courtesies. She is simply a statistic: the 161st American civilian contractor killed in Iraq since 2003. When I called a friend in Iraq to ask about the circumstances, I was told, Who cares about the civilian? We're just roadkill."

Civilians work alongside the military. However, other than the security companies, these civilians are not armed. But they go on the same convoys, use the same transportation and sleep in the same areas.

In April of 2004 we had to fill sandbags and build defense positions alongside the military. There was fear that an attack was coming and our base did not have enough soldiers to defend it. Most of the fighters had been sent to Fallujah leaving mostly administrative personnel behind. Even though no one would admit to it, the military even took some of us veterans and showed us where the arms and ammo were.

Some may say the civilians volunteered to go over and work. Guess what? The last time I checked, every military person is a volunteer as well.