US Mission to Iraq: 16,000 Personnel?

November 14, 2011

Tags: Baghdad, contractors, mercenary, Parliament
Posted in: Democracy, Embassy/State, Iraq, Military, Other Ideas

Iraq, acting so so cute when it tries to seem like a real grownup sovereign nation, actually has asked the US to explain who all the 16,000 personnel that will make up the State Department’s mission in Iraq are.

A member of the al-Iraqiya Bloc in the Iraqi Parliament has demanded the Iraqi government carry out an accounting of the people at the World’s Largest Embassy (c), including the estimated 5000 security contractors in charge of protecting the Embassy.

“Iraq of 2012 shall be different than the previous years, as its doors are no longer open before whoever wishes to enter the country, under any name, and without knowing the foreign intelligence agency he belongs to and who had sent him and who he it would protect,” the Parliamentarian said. “It is necessary to carry out a complete counting for the contractors, in charge for the protection of the US Embassy in Baghdad, along with the total number of the Embassy’s staff, in order to know the real size of the Embassy and whether Iraq’s regulations allow the establishment of an embassy with such a large size.”

So really, what are 16,000 people going to do everyday in Iraq on behalf of the US government?

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