ABSTRACT
The invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq reveals the confluence of many transnational practices, although two in particular stand out: the use and movement of private military corporations (warriors) and the deployment of private contract laborers (workers). L. Paul Bremer was named by Bush as new civilian administrator of postwar Iraq and would be the head of the newly-formed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Bremer's guidance of Iraq's reconstruction was characterized by mismanagement, fraud, corruption, and cronyism. It is no coincidence that all of the major corporations contracted to rebuild Iraq have lengthy histories of hiring Filipino workers. Thus, while acknowledgment must be made of the pervasiveness of military contractors in the occupation of Iraq, so too must acknowledgment be made of the thousands of contracted and sub-contracted laborers who work and (sometimes) die in the country.
