Jeremy Scahill: Despite Anti-War Rhetoric, Clinton-Obama Plans Would Keep U.S. Mercenaries, Troops in Iraq for Years to Come

A senior foreign policy adviser to leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has told The Nation magazine that if elected Obama will not “rule out” using private security companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq.
That’s the lead sentence from a new article by independent journalist Jeremy Scahill. The adviser to Obama also said that the Illinois Senator does not plan to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009, when a new President will be sworn in.

Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill joins us now in our Firehouse studio. He is the author of the best-selling book “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” His latest article is titled “Obama’s Mercenary Position.” It appears in the upcoming issue of the Nation Magazine.

Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill joins us now in our Firehouse studio. Author of the best-selling book “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” His latest article is “Obama’s Mercenary Position.” It appears in the upcoming issue of the Nation Magazine.

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• Jeremy Scahill's article, "Obama's Mercenary Position"

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