<p>I’m sorry that you disliked the tone of my post, which is notoriously difficult to do well online. I don’t like the way that you blatantly changed what I was saying, however.</p>
<p>I know that Iraq is a very dangerous place, in general. And I know that the disastrous decision to invade the country has made it much worse, by and large. I did not like the way people were insulting the OP by implying that he was money-hungry and didn’t value his own life simply for considering this job opportunity. Obviously not every poster did that, and many people had very good advice, but I saw too many posts implying negative things about the OP, and I didn’t like that, hence the tone of my original post.</p>
<p>I strongly opposed the Iraq war from the very beginning, and I don’t understand the leaps you made in reading my posts.</p>