{"id":194025,"date":"2008-10-31T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/31\/6-billion-on-mercs-so-far\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T10:05:00","slug":"6-billion-on-mercs-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/31\/6-billion-on-mercs-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"$6 Billion on Mercs&#8230;so Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Hodge uncovers this little bit of chocalatey goodness from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/10\/us-spent-6-bill.html\">the most recent report of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the stuff that the SIGIR found.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more the report says that the numbers should go <strong>up<\/strong> as the troops pull out, because, &#8220;requirements for private security services for DoS [Department of State] and USAID would likely increase to compensate for support previously provided by the military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lovely.  The US needs to sign onto the anti-mercenary treaty, and shut down this entire industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Hodge uncovers this little bit of chocalatey goodness from the most recent report of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. And that&#8217;s just the stuff that the SIGIR found. What&#8217;s more the report says that the numbers should go up as the troops pull out, because, &#8220;requirements for private security services for DoS &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,969,1179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-evil","category-mercenaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194025"}],"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=194025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}