{"id":192990,"date":"2009-01-29T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/29\/iraq-denies-license-to-blackwater\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:56:00","slug":"iraq-denies-license-to-blackwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/29\/iraq-denies-license-to-blackwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Denies License to Blackwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/28\/AR2009012803319.html?wprss=rss_world%2Fmideast%2Firaq\">notified the State Department of their decision<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/29\/mideast\/blackwater.1-418420.php\">the U.S. government will not renew their contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this is the start of a more general withdrawal of the use mercenary forces by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the problem is not limited to combat contractors (mercenaries), it&#8217;s also increasingly obvious that the explosion of contractors throughout the bureaucracy has created an explosion of fraud, waste, and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq has notified the State Department of their decision, and the U.S. government will not renew their contract. Hopefully, this is the start of a more general withdrawal of the use mercenary forces by the U.S. government. Of course the problem is not limited to combat contractors (mercenaries), it&#8217;s also increasingly obvious that the explosion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1009,1063,1179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-iraq","category-mercenaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}