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To: combjelly who wrote (249197)	9/4/2005 9:00:25 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572436

I suspect that the figure you are looking for will be dwarfed by the cost of the contractors. Perhaps, but I doubt dwarfed is the right word. If you just run $50k salary per year x 140k military personnel, you are already up to $7 billion per year. Then if a salary is $50k probably "extras" (health, food, clothing whatever) are another $50k per year, and you're up to $14 billion per year. And even when considering the contractors, if most are American companies it basically keeps the money in the US system. You can argue whether it could be better spent elsewhere, but if the $7 billion per year of basic salary weren't being spent on "personnel in Iraq", it would be spent on the personnel anyway, wherever they were stationed.