What people do is their choice. I am sure the troops would rather have Americans working on their bases than Iraqis or other FNs. Do you think any sane person would go to Iraq and work for 30,000 a year. The advantage is with the tax breaks since the first 80,000 is free from taxation. If you work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, at the rate of 20.00 per hour which is what an average tradesworker might make in the States, with the overtime it would come out to more than 90,000 dollars. Debating the validity of this conflict and whether or not Bush should have gotten the U.S. involved is a little bit late. Why not have Americans over there making the money instead of foreign nationals? There are so many illegals in the U.S. preforming construction work it is pushing people to try and work in Iraq with KBR or whomever.