US civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

MS SLATE reports that > the CIA acknowledged yesterday that two of the
contract workers were killed in Afghanistan over the weekend. <

in recent years (starting under Clinton, I guess), the US military and
related organizations (such as the CIA) have privatized a lot of their
functions, contracting out to profit-seeking civilian organizations. To
what extent have people associated with those organizations been killed
or wounded since the "war against terrorism" began in Afghanistan and
Iraq? Adding in officially military deaths and woundings, how does this
war compare to other wars? 

BTW, it seems to me that most profit-seeking businesses wouldn't want to
operate in either Afghanistan or Iraq unless security was provided. How
may civilian contractors have bugged out? is the Pentagon revising its
privatization strategy?

I'm glad that Wolfowitz finally saw combat. Has it changed his views at
all?

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