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According to the Government Accountability Office, there are now some [url=http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:QxzDQ9YBwJQJ:http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06865t.pdf+%22government+accountability+office%22+48000&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a]48,000 employees[/url] of private military companies in Iraq. These not-quite G.I. Joes, working for Blackwater and other major U.S. firms, can clear in a month what some active-duty soldiers make in a year. "We got 126,000 contractors over there, some of them making more than the secretary of Defense," said House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha. "How in the hell do you justify that?"
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