Comments on: The Hessians Are Coming http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: guns for home protection http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-155838 guns for home protection Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:08:41 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-155838 <strong>guns for home protection...</strong> You must put a lot of work into blogging this much!... guns for home protection…

You must put a lot of work into blogging this much!…

]]> By: liberranter http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149654 liberranter Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:56:13 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149654 Think "Rome, circa 400-476 A.D." Or, perhaps a more apt comparison would be to look at the emergence of the Mamlukes in the Arab caliphates during the early Middle Ages. Having become disdainful of the idea of fighting their own wars, the Arabs enslaved foreigners to do their warfighting for them. In the end, these warriors wound up enslaving their masters/employers. True history has a way of repeating itself. Think “Rome, circa 400-476 A.D.” Or, perhaps a more apt comparison would be to look at the emergence of the Mamlukes in the Arab caliphates during the early Middle Ages. Having become disdainful of the idea of fighting their own wars, the Arabs enslaved foreigners to do their warfighting for them. In the end, these warriors wound up enslaving their masters/employers. True history has a way of repeating itself.

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149640 Eugene Costa Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:18:24 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149640 Ah yes, the prima donna hombre again. Ah yes, the prima donna hombre again.

]]> By: kirk hayes http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149639 kirk hayes Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:38:32 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149639 Our rot is evident with our employing mercenaries and "renditions" in foreign countries. That our "leaders" (very loose term) still crow about amerikan freedoms and virtues tetifies to the nature of our citizenry when our leaders still boldly claim the America of yesterday is the same as the amerika of today and such bovine scat is accepted. Our rot is evident with our employing mercenaries and “renditions” in foreign countries. That our “leaders” (very loose term) still crow about amerikan freedoms and virtues tetifies to the nature of our citizenry when our leaders still boldly claim the America of yesterday is the same as the amerika of today and such bovine scat is accepted.

]]> By: richard vajs http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149634 richard vajs Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:08:42 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149634 Gives me a weird sense of relief just to know that there is absolutely nothing about this invasion/occupation of Iraq that has any connection to honesty or decency. It is a black hole for morality. Gives me a weird sense of relief just to know that there is absolutely nothing about this invasion/occupation of Iraq that has any connection to honesty or decency. It is a black hole for morality.

]]> By: Brad Smith http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149633 Brad Smith Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:48:07 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149633 At the start of the Iraq mess I was sent an e-mail. I don't remember if it came from Blackwater or someone working for them in recruitment (or even just a scam). However, what really pissed me off was that they seems to know quite a few details of my time in the military. Things that I didn't really care for anyone knowing let alone someone who is sending this stuff around the internet. About two years later I recieved a letter from the department of defense saying that I was one of the many soldiers who had had their info stolen during a hack at the pentagon. Shure makes me wonder what actually happended. Peace! At the start of the Iraq mess I was sent an e-mail. I don’t remember if it came from Blackwater or someone working for them in recruitment (or even just a scam). However, what really pissed me off was that they seems to know quite a few details of my time in the military. Things that I didn’t really care for anyone knowing let alone someone who is sending this stuff around the internet. About two years later I recieved a letter from the department of defense saying that I was one of the many soldiers who had had their info stolen during a hack at the pentagon. Shure makes me wonder what actually happended.

Peace!

]]> By: Andy http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149629 Andy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:09:50 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149629 When you want an empire but have no draft you have to resort to mercenairies. When you want an empire but have no draft you have to resort to mercenairies.

]]> By: R. Nelson http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149626 R. Nelson Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:09:59 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149626 Awright, Eugene! Instead of incoherent allusions to heaven knows what you've regaled us with useful, informative posts here. Bem feito, my man. Awright, Eugene! Instead of incoherent allusions to heaven knows what you’ve regaled us with useful, informative posts here. Bem feito, my man.

]]> By: RK http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149624 RK Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:04:17 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149624 Laurence, Shame on you for engaging in the same type of chicanery that would make the neocons proud. First of all the "foreigners" you are talking about are all green card holders who already have the right to live and work in the U.S. and already are or soon will will be eligible for citizenship anyway. The military simply expedites that citizenship. Green card holders are almost never referred to as "foreigners" in either the liberal or conservative press so for you to use the term and compare it to Hessians is deliberately deceptive. You say "Thanks to a generous citizenship to foreigners plan, about 8,000 foreigners join the U.S. military every year. Then we transport these “large armies of foreign mercenaries” overseas to do our dirty work." First of all no one is being recruited from overseas. Second of all, if expedited citizenship for green card holders was a significant factor in recruiting, then the foreign-born would be overrepresented in the military. In fact the exact opposite is true. As shown below, The foreign born are roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population and only 5 percent of the U.S. military. http://www.census2010.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/foreignborn_population/003969.html http://www.uslaw.com/bulletin/foreign-nationals-in-the-armed-services.php?p=18 Laurence,

Shame on you for engaging in the same type of chicanery that would make the neocons proud. First of all the “foreigners” you are talking about are all green card holders who already have the right to live and work in the U.S. and already are or soon will will be eligible for citizenship anyway. The military simply expedites that citizenship. Green card holders are almost never referred to as “foreigners” in either the liberal or conservative press so for you to use the term and compare it to Hessians is deliberately deceptive. You say “Thanks to a generous citizenship to foreigners plan, about 8,000 foreigners join the U.S. military every year. Then we transport these “large armies of foreign mercenaries” overseas to do our dirty work.” First of all no one is being recruited from overseas. Second of all, if expedited citizenship for green card holders was a significant factor in recruiting, then the foreign-born would be overrepresented in the military. In fact the exact opposite is true. As shown below, The foreign born are roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population and only 5 percent of the U.S. military.

http://www.census2010.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/foreignborn_population/003969.html
http://www.uslaw.com/bulletin/foreign-nationals-in-the-armed-services.php?p=18

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/08/the-hessians-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-149620 Eugene Costa Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:27:17 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4270#comment-149620 Course the question I have never got an answer to is how many Israeli contractors (PMC and other) were at Abu Gharaib and elsewhere in Iraq. Course the question I have never got an answer to is how many Israeli contractors (PMC and other) were at Abu Gharaib and elsewhere in Iraq.

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