I say let's phase out the volunteers and privatize the entire U.S. military. What have these guys got against killing for profit anyhow? Are they commies?

Rv, I agree totally, in fact let's outsource the whole deal to China!Oh, Gawd-damn, that might not work.I guess they need a Draft for permanent wars of aggression, against abstract concepts like "terra",for the sake of resource theft and global hegemony.Must be Fascists!
I guess they cannot hire the Commies to do the Fascists' work.They already reluctantly finance most of it.

Here's hoping someone doesn't tap Sanders on the shoulder when he's at the podium and tell him that he's wasting valuable Senatorial racketeering time with his foolishness-- and by the way, Xe Inc. would very much like to open a Regional Headquarters in Vermont!

Because if that happens, Rep. Schakowsky will be a cheese standing alone and forlorn.

Even if Sanders doesn't bail out the way he did with his "single-payer" proposal, no way the Amerikan Imperium will roll back its reliance on mercenary forces.

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Go for the gold - phase out war!

It is well past due that a couple members of Congress actually recognize the historical maxim, "Mercenaries are more trouble than they are worth."

Wow, two lawmakers want to phase out "contractors" or mercenaries as we say in english.

And fifty percent of the two lawmakers are Democrats. And you people said the Democrats were just as much warmongers as the Republicans, I guess this proves you wrong!!

Why bother voting Green when you can get action like this out of, well, less than one percent of the Democrats.

Phase out? Must we continue to hear the lies and excuses. There is too much money involved to do the right thing.

I hope that Bernie and Jane don't take many plane trips in the future.

I'm not joking. When you consider the hundreds of billions of dollars of profit that corporate greedheads could miss out on (notice that I didn't say 'lose') and their ability to control the media, the military, and the Federal courts completely, the sacrifice of a few hundred . . . hell, millions of lives - let alone those of some cranky politicans - is not at all in the realm of improbabilty.

It is, in fact, in the realm of history.

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They'd better do it quick, before some other nation or group, outbids Uncle Sam and Xe's guns are turned on us.

Any corporation worth its charter would have to take the more profitable client.

WHO'S THE AGRESSOR? America is, we have military nearly all over the world. we have other options for energy. total greed.we need to stop expecting other countries to change their culture to mimic ours. I know how i would feel if other countries moved in to america and told me what to do.....oh that's right, it's already happening. Where is our military, and our representatives..... vote them out and let's clean up this mess. illegals start packing I want my country back.

It's about time we start getting rid of those criminals. They have done far more harm than good, and are one of the reasons so many people around the world have lost their respect for us (the U.S.).

What's in a name...Blackwater to XE? I really wondered about this, over priced , professional killing machine, so I looked around a bit. First I did look for something Chinese , but that didn't fit. Well, the original from Greek is "foreigner, alien or stranger." That seems to fit well, you know, soldiers going into another's country.

However, I think that I've found it...Xe for Xenon, a " noble gas." Yes, they would think themselves 'noble."

More tidits... xenon is a by-produst of nuclear materials, and it's an odorless, and transparent gas. If one were to walk into an area where it was stored, no one would see it nor smell it, and even better, it can knock people out.

Great, we have a company which thinks it's noble, and knocks people out before they realize that it's there.....that's got to be why they changed the name.

So cleverly convert, however, changing the name, Blacklwater, does not change your past actions, and we wish you to be gone from any government payoll. An exit away from diplomatic protection, but away from the planet would be even nicer.

The broken lamppost of capitalism must be propped up somehow and the desperados wanting to privatize the government are running out of options.

I have tried to be vigilant on the issue of Blackwater killers since I read the original news exposure of how they justified their idiocy in Iraq. Xe, as they have "rebred" themselves, are excess armed service graduates; trained by the military, reprogrammed by Eric Prince, and then fondled by right wing concubines. They exist as a continuing, slimy shape shifting farce of armed bandits exciting themselves by lathering in security money.
There is no such a thing as a "Security Force" in the future of political complications. This concept exists as an outdated, revisionist, irrational conduit of fear.
Good for Jan and Bernie.