First in Mercenaries

Being the most mercenary friendly state in the nation, North Carolina should be especially excited about Obama's unprecedented reliance on private armies to carry out the growth strategies of America, Inc. Gotta love those free markets.

Now that the much despised George W. Bush is out of the way and a more popular figurehead is doing PR for Dick Cheney’s right-hand military leader Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who is leading his second AF-Pak surge now, and with long time Bush family confidant Robert Gates still running the Defense Department, the masters of war have never had it so good.

According to new statistics released by the Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander in chief, there has been a 23% increase in the number of ‘private security contractors’ working for the Department of Defense in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a 29% increase in Afghanistan.