That particular (Halloween 2008) costume party thus found the major movers-and-shakers of AGILITY wearing janitors’ costume. The inside joke is that such janitors barely earn 100 dollars a month in Kuwait, i.e. while working in Kuwait for firms such as AGILITY.
Sweeping the floor of the Costume Party, one could observe one AGILITY bigwig who had placed something new on his AGILITY janitor’s costume. On the back of the blue uniform was placed a “thumbs down to Obama”.
This Sultan family member then wryly smiled and week, “Yes, if Obama gets elected, this is likely to be the kind of job I will have to take on if Obama is elected.”
However, now Obama has been elected, I seriously doubt that this leading Sultan family and AGILITY leader will actually lose his job very soon.
Let’s pray that the American military does pull out of Iraq soon.
Moreover, let’s demand that the company’s like AGILITY are no longer allowed to earn hundreds of billions off U.S. tax payers, i.e. America must stop its dependence on either mercenary firms or soldiers to fight its wars around the globe.
These firms have been involved in underpaying foreign workers in danger zones, failing to represent American values abroad, and have cost us all too much money.
In summary, such overdependence on subcontractors and mercenary armed forces by the USA is expensive. Moreover, in both the long and short term very self-defeating as the DOD cannot really arrest and charge mercenaries with crimes in the war zones if the US DOD is over-dependent on them. http://schema-root.org/region/americas/north_america/usa/military/mercenaries/
THE INTERVIEW
Here is the site to listen to the Interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.
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