The Word is “Contracter”.
The Iraqi government Monday ordered Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to stop work and leave the country after the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy.
The order by the Interior Ministry, if carried out, would deal a severe blow to U.S. government operations in Iraq by stripping diplomats, engineers, reconstruction officials and others of their security protection.
The presence of so many visible, aggressive Western security contractors has angered many Iraqis, who consider them a mercenary force that runs roughshod over people in their own country.
See, that’s why the Iraqis will never be able to govern themselves. They insist on calling things by their proper names. if they would just play ball, and stop calling their dead children “dead children” and adopt the much kinder “collateral damage” things would be much better.
A good start would be to stop calling our paid, private army that’s accountable to no one and makes more money than our enlisted men “mercenaries”. “Contracter” or “soldier of fortune” or “privateer” or “hessian” would be much more accurate. Silly Iraqis. We’re never leaving.
