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  • Shadewhile :: Interview with a Contractor Pt. I

    This is a riveting account of life as a contractor in Iraq.It may make your stomach churn.An excerpt:What characterizes the people who work combat zone contracts?"There are prior convicts that snuck through the filter.There are people who think that all Iraqi people are terrorists, and that... more

    Reviewed by judefa May 15 2007, 07:45am ( 34 reviews ) • shadewhile.com

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  • Rated by BluePeriphery on Jan 26 2009, 7:56pm

    Wow. That's perhaps the most honest and raw account of whats really going on that I have read.

  • Reviewed by wwiitttt on Jan 22 2009, 9:31pm

    damn.

  • Rated by BadHand on Jan 18 2009, 12:49pm

    What a jerk this author is.

  • Rated by Xalien on May 22 2007, 10:51pm

    Interview with a contractor. Why war is truly hell...and why American corporations are making a huge amount of money off of it with contractors.

  • Rated by mspetry on May 22 2007, 12:23pm

    From the page: "It is sad, though, when you realize that a soldier going beyond the wire and making $25,000 a year and risking his life daily is being mocked by some 250-pound chick who is sitting behind a desk in a posh office eating Twinkies and making $130,000 a year. Is it right or is it wrong? I do not know. However, I have gotten to the point where I will turn to a soldier who is troubled by this and say, "Hey, no one twisted your arm and pushed you into the recruiting office and had you sign on with the Army. And if you want to act like a victim and point fingers, you had best realize that we all choose our own fates." They know this is true and back down. It is like driving down Rodeo Drive in a beat-up Datsun and bitching about rich people. Pointless. You would never get Joe BeeBow From Texas to come out to Iraq for $35,000 a year, it just would not happen."

  • Rated by squeegy76 on May 20 2007, 7:21pm

    "Al Asad (my first place of work in Iraq) has an Oasis on it that is considered the third Holiest spot in all of Islam: an oasis where Abraham supposedly drank and bathed. A few Marines swam in the Oasis and ended up having to go to the hospital with some horrible skin rash. This Oasis is now surrounded by a dump, and within the dump there is a fenced area that holds a grave site for an entire Iraqi soccer team that was executed by Saddam's military after losing an important soccer match. Not far from Al Asad is an area that is supposedly the Garden of Eden. It too is now an area filled with mass graves."