Without disclosing DynCorp ties, McCaffrey says "we can't live without contractors," calls for 10- to 25-year Afghan mission

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- by worrierking (September 04, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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  What McCaffrey really means is that we can't run our wars of choice or convenience without "contractors".
  
  And the "contractors" in Iraq and Afghanistan are what we called mercenaries in prior wars.
  
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  - by foghornleghorn (September 04, 2009 4:28 pm ET)
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    Wasn't this guy once the Drug Czar? Someone should ask him how that war is going.
    
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    - by The_Cat (September 04, 2009 4:46 pm ET)
      
      If the effects of the War on Drugs weren't so serious, foghornleghorn, it would be hysterically funny to watch.
      
      To see the three martini lunch, straight laced conservatives spending massive government money to persecute it's own citizens it somehow not that surprising. Where it gets funny is when you realize that the 'sober' 'earnest' 'thoughtful' people are losing this war to the pot heads! Of course, California is about to defect completely from this 'war', and rightly so. They need the income, and they need to quit spending precious law enforcement manpower and capital in such a foolish way. I just hope the surrender progresses quickly to other states!
      
      McCaffrey was drug czar under Clinton, and was the one who got in trouble for deciding it was okay to spread anti-drug propaganda on prime time TV without telling anyone it was the ONDCP who was actually paying for it. It was determined that he had in fact committed domestic propaganda. Looks like leopards don't ever really change their spots, huh?
      
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      - by John Paradox (September 04, 2009 8:30 pm ET)
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        This is your brain
        
        This is your brain on drugs
        
        This is the brain of a wingnut (magnified 50,000 times)
        
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  - by shaggles (September 04, 2009 5:41 pm ET)
    
    I agree with you but I also think one of the major reasons for the use of contractors was to avoid instituting a draft.
    
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    - by foghornleghorn (September 04, 2009 5:52 pm ET)
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      And if you had the real threat of a draft, there would be no war.
      
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      - by worrierking (September 04, 2009 7:16 pm ET)
        
        I'm the last person int he world who would ever think that re-instating the draft would be a good thing, but I wholeheartedly agree.
        
        We would not have gone into either Iraq or Afghanistan if there was a chance that the children of the neo-cons would have been called up to fight.
        
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        by The_Cat (September 04, 2009 9:32 pm ET)
        
        Well, considering all the manpower cuts in the Texas Air National Guard, there just wouldn't be enough billets available for them all.
        
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- by robinpat (September 04, 2009 4:59 pm ET)
  
  So, these two are experts, niether one has said where we are going to get all these people for 10 to 25 years or the money. They talk about this as though it's just simple math. Somebody explain to me the fascination with Afghanistan, it's as if no one can say let's pull everybody out and regroup. No, instead what you get is the nukes in Pakistan. Is somebody in the government going say we need to get out.
  
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- by mjh (September 04, 2009 5:41 pm ET)
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  McCaffrey says "we can't live without contractors," calls for 10- to 25-year Afghan mission
  
  Well Barry, if some of Blackwater's activities in Iraq are any indication, you can't live WITH them, either . . .
  
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