Listen to CACI Conference call tomorrow

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

And here we have the CACI Open Conference Call:

CACI International to Hold Conference Call to Discuss Reported Allegations Concerning its Employees in Iraq on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 9:05 am ET. There will be brief statement by management with a question-and-answer session to follow. Interested parties can listen to the conference call on the Internet by logging on to CACI's Internet site at www.shareholder.com/caci/medialist.cfm at the scheduled time. A replay of the call will also be available over the Internet beginning on May 5th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and can be accessed through CACI's homepage (www.caci.com).

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Many rank-and-file employees of mercenary corporations, of course, are no more culpable than the Hessian peasants who were hired to fight for George III. Tommy Hamill, who has just escaped from captivity in Iran, has the same reason for becoming a mercenary that many of the Hessians had: he’s in debt. According to the Jackson Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, he’s “a former dairy farmer who took a truck-driving job in Iraq to save his family from bankruptcy.” As the two-tier economy continues to dominate the United States, more and more Americans who aren’t making it financially may be forced to become mercenary employees of war profiteers. And their employers, the Halliburtons and the CACIs, will continue to fatten off their labors, just as the Hessian princes profited from sending their poor farmers to fight in the American Revolution.

Some of the mercenaries who are hired by the corporations in Iraq, however, are (mincing no words) evil embodied. They are trained to torture and to kill, and they’re paid handsomely for their skill. Seymour Hersh in the May 10 New Yorker quotes a February report on the allegations of torture in an Iraq prison:

“‘I suspect,’ Taguba concluded, that Pappas, Jordan, Stephanowicz and Israel ‘were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuse at Abu Ghraib.’ “

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