Is US and British Using Mercenaries/Special Forces in Iraq?

Question

I didn't know that much about mercenaries. Then I began reading about them & what they do. I began to understand. Then I began to understand other things. Lilke the US never intending to leave Iraq. And how several months ago, there were these attacks on Iraqi policemen & police stations; & we were told these attacks were the work of the "insurgents";.then Sunnis killing Shias - the work of the Sunnis...Shias killing Sunnis - the work of Shias or other groups. All the while, the Iraqi government..arguing, trying to structure a constitution..Meantime, violence prevails...and security forces keep being killed; and there is no real SECURITY in Iraq. Crime rages. Robbers,killers all around. No one has a license to drive...guns and other weapons everywhere...Mercenaries - invisible. Experienced. and people keep getting killed...now it is innocent civilians more than anyone.....Who are behind all of these attacks?

Who are experts at arranging scenarios that place the blame for what they do on others? Who are these people?

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SO you see it does NOT have to mean the word AND, All right?

Indeed I have YE. Because the US has no intentions of leaving Iraq anytime soon. She has had an agenda since day One. Iraqi oil. Everything else is secondary. Despite false tears, Bush cares nothing about US troops And the Iraqi government? Please. The US seeks to control Iraqi oil. Kiss the new govt's ****, that's her motto.If the US wants to leave when Iraqis "stand up," why has she built PERMANENT military bases in Iraq and done so BEFORE she has taken care of Iraqi's needs?
It is all so obvious.
I hope that Iraq convinces the US to just go home! and I think they will. In fact, they alread have.
And let me tell you something else. Bush talked much before the invasion about the fact that he wanted to bring "freedom and democracy" to the Iraqi people. hahahaha
Hummm. But I ask you. Have you ever heard, seen, ANYTHING which would underscore any white man wanting to brng those things to brown people. Have you?
of course not.

Indeed I have YE. Because the US has no intentions of leaving Iraq anytime soon. She has had an agenda since day One. Iraqi oil. Everything else is secondary. Despite false tears, Bush cares nothing about US troops And the Iraqi government? Please. The US seeks to control Iraqi oil. Kiss the new govt's ****, that's her motto.If the US wants to leave when Iraqis "stand up," why has she built PERMANENT military bases in Iraq and done so BEFORE she has taken care of Iraqi's needs?
It is all so obvious.
I hope that Iraq convinces the US to just go home! and I think they will. In fact, they alread have.
And let me tell you something else. Bush talked much before the invasion about the fact that he wanted to bring "freedom and democracy" to the Iraqi people. hahahaha
Hummm. But I ask you. Have you ever heard, seen, ANYTHING which would underscore any white man wanting to brng those things to brown people. Have you?
of course not.
and they never will.

Answer 1

Of course they do. They just have a better way of calling them mercanaries (contractors). The link provided is just a small number of them. There is a lot more out there.

Answer 2

Umm, yep. Special forces will always have a place in any conflict, simply because, in all honesty, the average soldier doesn't know crap. For any mission that involves asking questions before shooting, or shooting without getting shot, special forces are generally used. Also, since the government can only send over so many official military troops, there will be guns for hire... but are they really mercenaries any more than the mall security guard is a mercenary? I mean he gets hired to carry a gun around too.

Have you stopped and asked yourself what the Government would really stand to gain by prolonging the war in Iraq? Gas prices aren't going down much, ratings aren't going up much, and the economy isn't improving all that well...

Answer 3

Umm, yep. particular forces will continuously have an section in any conflict, because, in all honesty, the classic soldier would not understand crap. For any challenge featuring asking questions till now capturing, or capturing while not having shot, particular forces are frequently used. also, because the authorities can in worry-free words furnish over the type of massive volume of valid safe practices pressure troops, there'll be guns for employ... yet are they quite mercenaries any extra perfect than the mall safe practices safeguard is a mercenary? I recommend he receives employed to carry a gun round too. have you ever stopped and requested your self what the authorities might want to favor to really stand to attain through prolonging the conflict in Iraq? gas prices aren't any further taking position plenty, rankings are unlikely up plenty, and the organisation kit isn't recovering all that remarkable...

Answer 4

The terrorists and those Shias & Sunnis are, of course. They have and are mercenaries as well, sir. No doubt WE are using mercenaries to try and hunt them down and kill them. Until the IRAQIs cooperate and reign in their warring factions, there will never be peace and security over there.

Answer 5

Sadly, innocent people get killed in war. Always have,always will. Sometimes it's very hard to tell who actually is innocent in a war or who is behind what or why. I question the news reports on this topic. It's easy for a news person who is against the war to call some one "innocent". We can't be sure. We will probably never know who is actually behind some actions.

Answer 6

Yes the U.S. is using special forces and so is the British gov't. But merc's no, they are not using merc's. Think about the word itself, they are paramilitary guns for hire. They may have been ex-military and have some kind of training

Answer 7

The special forces are definately in Iraq, and they are smacking **** as we speak.
Wars are won because of the information these guys provide.

Answer 8

You need to get some proper definitions for the terms you are using. It isn't "mercenaries/special forces" it's mercenaries AND special forces.

Special forces has become a generic term to refer to any group of soldiers that receives any of a number of specialized combat training courses. In the United States, SOF (Special Operations Forces) includes: Army Special Forces (or "Green Berets," a term an SF soldier generally stays clear of) and Rangers, but also Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) and Civil Affairs, Navy SEALs, and Air Force special ops helicopter pilots (PAVE Hawk and PAVE Low) and other pilots (MC-130 and AC-130), as well as PJs (Parachute Jumpers) and combat controllers. The US Marines have determined that all their MEUs (Marine Expeditionary Units) are SOC - special operations capable, but resist the term being applied to their battalion reconaissance units (Force RECON), largely so as not to get sucked into larger bureaucratic organizations, a similar response to their feelings about giving up their airpower to a JFACC in theater. The main thing to note here is that special forces are soldiers under arms for a particular nation-state - they work directly for the government, and are in no sense contractors or mercenaries.

Mercenaries being a loaded word with a lot of negative connotations, we prefer to call them contractors. The British are more open about it, and call these organizations PMCs, or private military companies. They are a booming business these days, and they range from companies that do intelligence or logistics, sort of "back-office" military work, to straight up infantry companies, boots on the ground grunt work. A lot of the intel/back-office companies operate out of Virginia, and a lot of the more direct action companies are British and are headed by and made up of former SAS regiment types, to the point that the British have to throw a lot of money at their currently active duty soldiers to retain them. That's starting to happen here - an SF E-7 can punch out of the Army and go double or triple his salary at Blackwater, so the Army is having to raise its reenlistment cash incentives to as high as $100K. And let's not even talk about the huge market share of security services dominated by the Israelis. Bottom-line, these are privately owned companies and their employees, not tied to a particular nation-state, although they contract their services out to national governments.

Yes, there are lots of security contractors, of all different types and "nationalities" (like many MNCs, it would be a mistake to assume that a company that bases its operations out of Virginia is necessarily "American") operating in Iraq. Some are there under contract with the U.S. or British militaries, some are there under contract with the new Iraqi government.

As far as your conspiracy theories about the evil mercenaries, I'm not seeing it. Exactly because guns and labor are plentiful and cheap, I don't see the various warring factions as needing to contract for outside and very expensive security services. I seriously doubt Blackwater is sending its operatives out there to work for an Iranian-backed Shia group to kidnap Sunni government officials - that isn't remotely in the interests of Blackwater, so I'd really have to see the smoking gun to believe that one.

Yes, Iraq is now in the throes of a civil war. And similar to the beginning of the insurgency, when the Bush administration kept shying away from the term for months after the military had adapted itself to the facts of the situation, it's unhelpful to not call the thing what it is. It's time to admit it's a civil war, whether or not that has negative political connotations for the Bush administration leading up to the mid-terms. That ship has sailed, and if President Bush wishes to be salvage anything of his historical legacy, it's time to roll up the sleeves, get some smart military strategists into the room, fire the political PR people, and get to work. The Americans absolutely own the Iraq disaster, and they have to fix it. It's a moral imperative, as well as being the end of their credibility in the realm of international relations if Iraq goes down in flames.

Answer 9

All military personnel are mercenaries. Accepting money to kill others makes you a mercenary.

Answer 10

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