Reply #62: I'd say Al-Z gains nothing

[RapidCreek]

in fact quite the opposite. See your point number 1.

As to your second point....let's consider it a bit more deeply. Berg WAS NOT a contractor. To call oneself a contractor one must be working under contract. Berg was not. He was a tourist looking for work. Work which otherwise might be done by an actual contractor. A contractor who is registered and holds a contract....like Haliburton or one of their subs.

The message this sends is that those coming to Iraq sans an inked contract might very well get their heads sawed off.

Further, I would suggest that with the loss of the contractor types the war becomes VERY managable....it's because of the contract jobs that the war was started and is still going on. If there were no contracts there'd be no war.

RC