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Military Contractors Make Billions On The Front Line
Private military contractors are earning billions of dollars in Iraq -- much of it from U.S. taxpayers. The government says it cannot provide a total amount for the contracts -- many of which are secret -- but industry experts estimate Iraq's security business costs tens of billions of dollars

The work, which includes protecting people and transport convoys, is dangerous or, as one contractor put it:

"It sounds crude, but basically our job is to be a bullet sponge."

http://websearch.edition.cnn.com/websearch/search?Coll=cnn_xml&QuerySubmit=true&query=iraq+contractors+billions

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Of course, someone is going to get rich. You think fighting a war is free?

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Wars force Army equipment costs to triple
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.