::Tuesday, October 04, 2005::
WAGES OF WAR
.. What compels a person to risk one's life by working in dangerous Iraq? An opportunity to work, mostly absent in one's native country, to put food on the table so the family can eat three times a day. This is an inescapable fact that third country nationals (TCN's), mostly low wage laborers from poor impoverished countries like the Philippines, Pakistan and Sri Lanka face. The simple but powerful dream of saving a house and providing for one's family lure these workers to work for U.S. contract companies where they earn $200 to $1,000 a month. A meager sum by Western standards but manna from heaven in the third world. Their story of danger, abuse and exploitation must be heard.
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