Iraq Contractor Deaths High, Yet Go Largely Unnoticed

From AP:

In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press.

Oh, and while we're on the topic, say hello to Wronged by Blackwater (this will make me scary new "friends" - ha!).

Of course, it's not just the bitching Blackwater, run by a zealot paramilitary religious nut, is it?

There's Cheney's Halliburton and its Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) subsidiary), Bechtel, and a host of others.