CommonDreams.org<\/a>, donne de nombreux d\u00e9tails sur cette situation :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government’s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMore than 180,000 civilians including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIncluding the recent troop buildup, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe total number of private contractors, far higher than previously reported, shows how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of Iraq a mission criticized as being undermanned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThese numbers are big, said Peter Singer, a Brookings Institution scholar who has written on military contracting. They illustrate better than anything that we went in without enough troops. This is not the coalition of the willing. It’s the coalition of the billing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe numbers include at least 21,000 Americans, 43,000 foreign contractors and about 118,000 Iraqis all employed in Iraq by U.S. tax dollars, according to the most recent government data.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe array of private workers promises to be a factor in debates on a range of policy issues, including the privatization of military jobs and the number of Iraqi refugees allowed to resettle in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut there are also signs that even those mounting numbers may not capture the full picture. Private security contractors, who are hired to protect government officials and buildings, were not fully counted in the survey, according to industry and government officials.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbContinuing uncertainty over the numbers of armed contractors drew special criticism from military experts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWe don’t have control of all the coalition guns in Iraq. That’s dangerous for our country, said William Nash, a retired Army general and reconstruction expert. The Pentagon is hiring guns. You can rationalize it all you want, but that’s obscene.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCes diverses pr\u00e9cisions tendent \u00e0 montrer combien la guerre a chang\u00e9 de forme et de fond depuis les \u00e9v\u00e9nements du 11 septembre 2001. Ce mouvement de privatisation, qui r\u00e9pond \u00e0 une inclination g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des esprits dans ce sens aux USA, tend \u00e0 faire de la guerre un \u00e9v\u00e9nement comme un autre. La violence de la guerre en est ainsi compl\u00e8tement banalis\u00e9e et soumise aux pressions amicales des investisseurs tandis que les r\u00e8gles du march\u00e9 p\u00e9n\u00e8trent enfin, \u00e0 visage d\u00e9couvert et sans aucune contrainte d\u00e9concertante (du type honneur, patrie, sacrifice, etc.), les normes des combats de guerre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tPeut-\u00eatre certains esprits r\u00e9trogrades y verraient une des causes de l’\u00e9chec sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans l’histoire des conflits que repr\u00e9sente pour une puissance comme les USA la guerre en Irak. D’autres, dont nous sommes \u00e9galement, jugeront qu’il s’agit sans doute l\u00e0 de la ruse ultime de G4G (Guerre de la 4\u00e8me G\u00e9n\u00e9ration), ou comment retourner contre l’adversaire sa propre force.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 5 juillet 2007 \u00e0 11H45<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Des chiffres in\u00e9dits r\u00e9cemment obtenus par le Los Angeles Times (LAT) donnent une image radicale de la situation en Irak. Il s’agit du rapport entre les militaires (civils) priv\u00e9s pay\u00e9s par les USA et les militaires officiels d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s par les USA. Le chiffre des contractants civils (180.000) d\u00e9passe d\u00e9sormais celui des militaires US (160.000). Un… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2645,857,6326,6821],"class_list":["post-68972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-guerre","tag-irak","tag-privatisation","tag-privatisee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}