Obama's mercenary Army in Iraq to remain without oversight

This is the guy and the party maligning Bush for war in Iraq and anything which did or didn't go wrong there, now started a senseless war in Libya and prevent oversight over hired guns in Iraq.

U.S. Blocks Oversight of Its Mercenary Army in Iraq

By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security for its diplomats in Iraq once the U.S. military withdraws. And no one outside State knows anything more, as the department has gone to war with its independent government watchdog to keep its plan a secret.

Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), is essentially in the dark about one of the most complex and dangerous endeavors the State Department has ever undertaken, one with huge implications for the future of the United States in Iraq. “Our audit of the program is making no progress,” Bowen tells Danger Room.

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To be clear, these aren't mercenaries, and Obama didn't start this, but this is the type of rhetoric the other side would use to smear a Republican in office.