Do the math .
The congressional research service estimates it costs $390,000/year to keep a US soldier in Iraq.
Its tough to find an average cost for contractors since there are so many varied kinds.
But here are a couple of examples:
"DynCorp won a $50 million one-year contract to send 1,000 ex-cops and security guards to Iraq to help train a new police force." Thats $50,000 a year. I'm not sure.... is that less than $390,000?
"Contractors in Iraq now employ at least 180,000 people in the country, forming what amounts to a second, private, army, larger than the United States military force, and one whose roles and missions and even casualties among its work force have largely been hidden from public view. The widespread use of these employees as bodyguards, translators, drivers, construction workers and cooks and bottle washers has allowed the administration to hold down the number of military personnel sent to Iraq, helping to avoid a draft
"The report, by the Congressional Budget Office, according to people with knowledge of its contents, will say that one out of every five dollars spent on the war in Iraq has gone to contractors for the United States military and other government agencies, in a war zone where employees of private contractors now outnumber American troops."
Thats from the LIBERAL New York times.
So lets see.....there are MORE contractors in IRAQ than the US army but the are 20% of the cost.... sheesh....
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