( OT ) 600 Military killed ; "Coalition" contractors don't count
 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar....html?cnn=yes#

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A nation that goes to war on principle may not realize it
will then have to hire private soldiers to keep the peace.
The work of the four American civilians slaughtered in
Fallujah last week was so shadowy that their families
struggled to explain what exactly the men had been hired to
do in Iraq.