Recipe for Losing an Insurgency and Depleting an Army

Unaccountable private military contractors
1 Arrogant administration
Generous helpings of "compassionate conservatism"
A fundamentally flawed healthcare system
Instructions
1.Hire private military contractors to conduct core mission-critical security business. Mix contractors into cauldron of insurgency.
2.Allow said contractors to operate outside of military chain of command, accountable only for particular client services, but wholly unaccountable to the larger mission of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqi citizens. For extra zest, encourage contractors to treat all Iraqis as "potential terrorists."
3.Grant contractors immunity from Iraqi courts. Follow up by failing to prosecute employees on American soil .
4.Provide sweetheart deals to connected contractors (to taste). Cook the books thoroughly to ensure that these contracts both waste billions of taxpayer dollars and deny troops adequate supplies and services.
5.Finally, site cost and ideology as reasons for denying adequate healthcare to the exact demographic that tends to enroll in your military.
Served Hot: An unwinnable cauldron of insurgency that costs thousands of American lives; tens of thousands of Iraqi lives; billions of dollars; and your country's international reputation.
Served Cold: An armed forces that struggles to recover from over-extension.
Served Now: Sign a Call for Consequences for renegade contractors and urge Congress to over-ride Bush's SCHIP veto here.



