Jeremy Scahill, Tomdispatch.com
The Democrats’ plan does almost nothing to address the second largest force in Iraq — the estimated 126,000 private military “contractors” who will stay put there as long as Congress continues funding the war.
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell-out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill is being headlined in the media as a “show down” or “war” with the White House, it is hardly that.
In plain terms, despite the impassioned sentiments of the anti-war electorate that brought the Democrats to power last November, the Congressional leadership has made clear its intention to keep funding the Iraq occupation, even though Sen. Harry Reid has declared that “this war is lost.”
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