From Al-Jazeera…

The US government has spent at least $85 billion on private contractors during the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath, a government review has said.
About 20 per cent of money spent for operations in Iraq has gone to contractors, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said.
At present there are at least 190,000 contractors in Iraq and in neighbouring countries, a ratio of about one per US service member, the report said.

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