Beg to differ, but employees willing to sign-on for Iraq or any other danger/hardship posting are frequently if not always given very generous enticements to do so.
Danger, hardship, and overseas uplifts can easily total 100 percent of base pay (I've seen it). Extended working hours and/or responsibilities can be and are added for additional compensation. It's not like they're giving you weekends and holidays off in the IZ.
Further, non-contractual offers of promotion or "whichever job you want, wherever you want" upon completion of contract are pretty common. Managers want and need someone there, and if you stick it out you've done them a favor and shown a certain degree of toughness. It's not as if employees are clamoring to go to work in an active combat zone.
So she was going to get paid more than some of the Bank's VP's? So what. Tell them they're being reassigned to Iraq, and see how much they squawk.
SHE wasn’t going to Iraq - she was sending OTHER PEOPLE to Iraq. She wasn’t the heavy-lifting type and was pretty firm in her belief that only American chattel should fight and die for Arab freedom. For Arabs, freedom is supposed to be free.