Any time a taxpayer dollar ends up unnecessarily in the hands of a contractor rather than going to buy body armor, bullets or other equipment for our troops, it is a travesty. We have a duty to try and prevent waste and fraud, and come down hard on those who engage in it. One of the things I think that the American public doesn’t understand and why red flags go up around contractors is because we think we’ve got 150 or 170 thousand troops in Iraq, but we’re paying for twice that many.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 11:28 am and is filed under Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Politics .