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Federal officials are busily signing hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for on-site health care, food, protection and other needs, so that American personnel can steer clear of a perilous security situation on Iraq's city streets.
The State Department will hire more than 5,000 private security contractors for armed details and has contracted with a private service to ferry U.S. personnel in helicopters and planes.
The State Department will command four major diplomatic centers and seven other facilities, a total of 11 sites around the country. The tab will be around $3.8 billion for the first year, far above the operating cost of any other U.S. diplomatic mission-but far lower than the more than $40 billion in U.S. spending budgeted for fiscal 2011 in Iraq.
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They (Iraqis) should be paying us with all the "BIG OIL" money they are taking in!
This type of bu!!$hit needs to stop. Why are we spending billions to take care of 'their' sorry a$$es?
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ref:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12 ... ops-leave/
Count me in on that scenario! If they want our help, they should be supporting it!!! 
