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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (128935)	4/11/2004 2:13:23 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (4) of 281500

Hi Harvey Allen; Re: "I think Rumsfeld's civilian contractors are voting with their credit cards right now." I've discussed with my buddies how much money it would take to get us to work in Iraq, and the median amount mentioned was infinity. And that was before the place started barbecuing "contractors". The whole idea of using civilians to run military convoys stinks. What's going on here is that Bush is expanding the military presence in Iraq without having to expand the size of the US military on the books. The contractors are insanely expensive (probably just got even more so), they piss the Iraqis (who naturally suspect them of being CIA agents) as much or more than US soldiers, they can tell the gov to "take this job and shove it onto someone else" at any time, and the fact that they're getting paid real money must hurt morale among members of our armed forces. Relying on civilians to run your logistics supply line in a battle zone is militarily unwise. This is what you get when you stir up the hornet's nest and then pretend that there's no hornet problem. -- Carl

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