Homeland Security people working in Iraq - really! [View All]

Far From Homeland, Staff Deployed in Iraq
New Department Aids Reconstruction

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10733-2003Jul31.html

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Since President Bush declared the end of major combat in May, workers from throughout the new department have been toiling on reconstruction tasks there. Officials in Washington insist the assignments -- from promoting aviation security at Baghdad International Airport to retrieving ancient artifacts looted from Iraqi museums -- are about protecting the U.S. homeland.

"We think helping to secure Iraq helps make the United States a more secure country," said Gordon Johndroe, a department spokesman. "Making sure that aviation travel out of Iraq is safe directly affects our homeland security. Making sure that goods and people are not smuggled into or out of Iraq helps our homeland security."

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Rep. Jim Turner (Tex.), the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, said he saw nothing wrong with such deployments.
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I couldn't post all of the HS depts that have sent people.

It seems as if the bushgang is operating as if Iraq is now a state of the United States. whose going to tell the Iraqis?