"OK - So its not whether you are inside or outside of Iraq that makes the difference but its what you are actually employed to do.

So lets put it this way - If a company makes machine guns but you just work in payroll, are you part of the problem or part of the solution?"

No, but if you're hired to manage economic recovery (the equivalent to managing disaster recover as we do when there's a tornado or hurricane in the states we contract with, doing thing like ensuring that victims of the disaster get are aware of all the aid they're entitled to), what you're doing is a trifle different from the guys who used to run with Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. Confusing the two only serves to hinder people in Iraq getting help however much it makes you feel morally superior in your stubborn insistance that there isn't a difference.