Mercenaries Are US - Iraq Contractor Costs To Top $100 Billion
Report Iraq contractor cost may top 100B
Published: Aug. 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A government report indicates that from the invasion of Iraq until the end of 2008 the United States will have spent some $100 billion on private contractors.The Congressional Budget Office's report, scheduled for release Tuesday, indicates one of every five dollars spent on the war in Iraq went to contractors for the U.S. military and other government agencies, The New York Times reported.
The Defense Department's dependence on outside contractors in Iraq -- about 180,000 privately contracted people work in the Mideast country -- is proportionately larger than in any previous conflict, fueling charges that the practice has led to overbilling and fraud, and places U.S. troops in harm's way, the Times said.
The report found that from 2003-2007 the government awarded contracts in Iraq worth about $85 billion. Since the Bush administration awards contracts now at a rate of $15 billion to $20 billion a year, the report said contracting costs will top the $100 billion mark before the end of 2008, people familiar with the report said.
"This is the first war that the United States has fought where so many of the people and resources involved aren't of the military, but from contractors," said Charles Tiefer, a professor of government contracting at the University of Baltimore Law School and a member of an independent commission Congress created to study contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Mercenaries Are US - Iraq Contractor Costs To Top $100 Billion
A mercenary is a professional soldier hired by a foreign army, as opposed to a soldier enlisted in the armed forces of a sovereign state. He or she takes part in armed conflict on many different scales, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party" (Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention of August 1949). A non-conscript professional member of a regular army is not considered to be a mercenary although he gets remuneration for his service.
As a result of the assumption that a mercenary is essentially motivated by money, the term "mercenary" usually carries negative connotations, though that can be a compliment in some contexts. There is a blur in the distinction between a "mercenary" and a "foreign volunteer", when the primary motive of a soldier in a foreign army is uncertain. For instance, the French Foreign Legion and the Gurkhas are not mercenaries under the laws of war, since although they may meet many of the requirements of Article 47 of the 1949 Additional Protocol I, they are exempt under clauses 47(a)(c)(d)(e)&(f); some journalists describe them as mercenaries regardless.
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