This from yesterday's Stars and Stripes, via Associated Press.
The article is a little weak, in that it doesn't count for any increase in the number of contractors in country, but neither does the original report from which it draws: note this is the same report that slams the CPA for spending money in Iraq to improve the infrastructure before there was in infrastructure in place to account for the money being spent (yes, it is a chicken and egg argument; thus a poor one).
In any case, not a bad time to be going.
