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Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone. At least 146 contract workers were killed in Iraq in the first 3 months of the year.

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engineer
May 19, 2007, 2:04 p.m.
Let's get out of there now and do not let the Dems give into the evil slimeball, Bush.
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mark-stevens
May 19, 2007, 2:55 p.m.
These are not guys wearing hard hats these contractors get a thousand maybe two a day guarding who knows what. They are real professionals,former Green Beret, Special Ops, left the military to make real money!!
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miklkit
May 19, 2007, 3:06 p.m.
Contracters, mercenaries....I could make a mint there. I may be dumb, but I ain't stupid. They would have to pay me cash by the pallet to go over there and work for them.
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mark-stevens
May 19, 2007, 3:22 p.m.
I worked with two former "contractors" They had been somewhere in Africa. One of them commented "What a job, big money, and getting paid to kill nig**ers"!! What a warm and fuzzy lot they were!!
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el4sail
May 19, 2007, 3:42 p.m.
At dailymotion.com you can watch them earn their pay. Just search for IED and watch their dreams and brains go up in smoke.
Fuel Truck hits IED fuel truck becomes a moving ball of fire.
Dont cook tonight call contractor delight,
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Obaku
May 19, 2007, 5:08 p.m.
Even driving a truck, carrying military supplies, makes you a mercenary, under the Geneva Conventions.
Blackwater makes a point of "one team, one mission" - kinda hard to deny being a mercenary then, huh?
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amIdreaming
May 19, 2007, 6:11 p.m.
I understand that Halliburtan refers to their contractors in Iraq as DLU's - disposable labor units.
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Locky12
May 19, 2007, 10:19 p.m.
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per
100,000 soldiers.
The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the US Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington.