War By Mercenaries

From now on, the US will rely heavily on mercenaries to fight its wars:

Keeping the size of the official military deployment into Iraq to a relative minimum appears to be a goal that the Pentagon has in mind, with the Obama Administration adding troops in small numbers but continuing to insist there isn’t going to be a ground war, or that at the very least US troops won’t be fighting in it.

Still, that doesn’t mean the war itself is going to be heavily impacted, but rather means the Pentagon will be focusing on mustering an army of contractors for the ISIS conflict.

During the last Iraq War, the US at times had over 100,000 military contractors on the ground there. The exact figures haven’t always been easy to come by, but the message that contractors don’t count as real troops on the ground in omnipresent.

The Pentagon is already sending out feelers for assembling this new unofficial army, posting a notice seeking contractors who are willing to work long-term in Iraq, with a minimum 12-month “initial” contract to be followed by extensions.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-contractors-will-replace-boots-ground-iraq/196309/

By the way, "contractors" = mercenaries, in case you didn't know.

Isn't that how King George III fought his wars?

If We The People have no stake in this war (other than the unwanted obligation to pay for these mercenaries), then why should we support it? There's a big difference between declaring war and mobilizing the US population to fight it and merely paying for some hired killers.