The “Break it Down” Blog

The Raw Story has the scoop on a law the Iraq interior ministry is set to ratify that would remove immunity for all the private security agencies currently serving in Iraq.

The argument from the private military side is that if the law passes, private military forces will pull out of Iraq. Private military companies question the integrity of Iraq’s current government and won’t stand to put their employees under that ruling hand.

I imagine that either law will get struck down or significantly revised as there are something like 180k private military personnel serving in Iraq right now, and I doubt you could have 1/2 the military presence in the country up and fly home without a major impact on the stability, safety and functional existence of most of the U.S. political and official figures there under the protection of these employees.

My guess is that if this does pass, it will be the spark that sets off the U.S.’s forced withdrawl from Iraq, but not out of choice, just out of an inability to function in Iraq to the degree they have been up to this point.