Democracy Now with Amy Goodman has been documenting the lawlessness of mercenaries (paid for by U.S. taxpayers) in Iraq and elsewhere, for years. Read Jeremy Scahill's accounts. Especially his latest book on, specifically, Blackwater, run by a fundamentalist christian, Erik Prince.

Iraq has rescinded the license for Blackwater to operate there. They thumbed their noses at the "soveriegn entity", as Bush so nicely put it, and kept doing their thing.

Cheney has a mercenary force in place, and they don't have to follow ANY rules, such as military procedure...they can shoot and kill at will, and blame it on everybody else. Hell, there's so many factions killing each other and US soldiers, you can blame any one of them.

This is absolutely disgusting, and those who support and pay these armed loons should be marching in front of them. Oh, oh, WE are paying for them, aren't we?

A grunt has to obey orders, work for very little money and can't get home for some R&R when he/she needs it. The Blackwater force does not follow any rules. Just like that bastard Cheney.

Where is the video. We can judge for ourselves. If Black water did shoot innocent people without provocation, the individual shooters should be prosecuted, the victims families compensated and the company kicked out of Iraq.

23 more reasons for the US to get out of Iraq.

"There are 20,000 to 30,000 private security contractors in Iraq guarding the U.S. embassy and other civilian agencies."



Well, now that's IS odd.
Most accounts I've read have listed as many as 180,000 private contractors in Iraq.