Does anyone else see a problem with this or is it just me.?

Border agents recruited for Iraq duty A military contractor is recruiting current and former agents with the U.S. Border Patrol to teach Iraqis how to secure their national borders. The U.S. State Department has asked Virginia-based DynCorp International to find 120 people with Customs and Border Enforcement experience to go to Iraq for the training. The company already has 700 police trainers in Iraq. The department made the request for border security trainers in late March. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said she was worried that DynCorp's effort is distracting from security along the U.S.-Mexico border. She and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrote President Bush this week to say the deal "makes no sense." "We should be focused on supporting our nation's security efforts along the Mexican and Canadian border instead of hampering (the Customs and Border Patrol) by sending our best agents to a war zone in Iraq," the governors wrote. Agent Shannon Stevens, a Border Patrol spokeswoman, said the number of personnel DynCorp is looking for is "a very small number compared to the agents we have." DynCorp is offering recruits $134,100 for a one-year stay, plus a $25,000 signing bonus. The first $90,000 in income is tax free, and housing and food are free, company spokesman Gregory Lagana said. Border Patrol agents with at least two years' experience make roughly $55,000. Arizona's Tucson sector employs 2,600 agents, and there are more than 13,350 nationwide It seems contradictory. OK there but not here. And yes I want the war over. Thank You -some really added to this-very interesting

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1. It further demonstrates just how BAD things are in Iraq. There's a reason the military has restricted internet access for the troops - they don't want us to know how bad it is over there.
2. Something is definately wrong there. Like the guy above me said, they don't want us to know how bad it is. Not only do they have restricted internet access, but they cannot use phones as well. Government is hiding something. My boyfriend's brother is in Iraq.
3. "Mexican and Canadian Border" wtf....were not canada and plus...isnt the war in iraq more important...
4. When will everyone realize that the government doesn't give a dam about the immigrant problem. They have been ignoring it and winking at it for over 60 years.... Big business, farmers, agribusiness and others DEPEND upon this cheap labor force - and the government knows it. The ONLY reason this has become and issue is to divert our attention away from the most serious problems we have in our country - the illegal war that is sucking us and our economy dry, 47 million Americans without health insurance which is breaking our hospitals and entire medical system, our jobs being outsourced to other countries, the disappearing middle class, "war on drugs" costing billions and billions of our tax dollars and is totally ineffectiver, extreme violence in our cities by drug gangs fighting over turf.... The "immigration" problem pales in comparison. But it gives the dummies among us something to complain about and somebody else to hate.