Iraq Contractors Have Cost $100 Billion, Goverment Says

The New York Times:

WASHINGTON -- The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, a milestone that reflects the Bush administration's unprecedented level of dependence on private firms for help in the war, according to a government report to be released Tuesday.

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.

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[ronspri]

It's been my theory since nearly the beginning that this was the real reason for the war...even more than oil. It's redistribution of our dollars in a big way thanks to the war profiteers. Rich get richer and the poor die serving their country.