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Record number of US contractors in Iraq | csmonitor.com

csmonitor.com — Some 190,000 private personnel were working in the Iraq theater as of early this year, a new report says. The scale of the use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in US history "It is ... exceptional the degree to which the military's currently relying on such contractors," said CBO director Peter Orszag at an Aug. 12 press conference.

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