Iraq for Sale - The War Profiteers video (1 hr 15 min 40 sec) is a really compelling look at how the United States pays billions of Tax-Payers money to private war contractors. "In recent years, as we have been actively engaging in war, things the governments used to do is being done by private companies." "Food, laundry, and housing were services provided within the military. Now were in Iraq yoy still need a lot of support mechanisms and there's just not enough military infrastructure to do this." Private contractors come in and they fill the gap. Haliburton - Reconstruction and Troop Support - $18.5 Billion. "I saw contractors in Iraq doing anything from helping fix tanks, helicopter mechanics, pretty much any job that's in the military, there's a civilian contractor right there." "There are over 100,000 contractors working in Iraq, Kuwait and the surrounding area." Parsons - Engineering and Construction - $5.3 Billion.
Bremer and Blackwater $21M
This war has been privatized to a greater extent than any other war in history." "They're part of a multi-billion industry - an industry very much in need by the US military." DynCorp International - Police Training - $1.9 Billion. "Forty cents out of every dollar Congress controls now goes to contractors. TransAtlantic Traders - Surveillance Aircraft - $5 Million. "There's more that 20,000 private military on the ground." "The second largest army in Iraq are 'private security.'" "They outscales the Brits or any other nation." Blackwater - Private Security to Guard Paul Bremer - $21 Million.
Blackwater is one of the largest and most conspicuous security firms in Iraq with about three hundred employees there. Blackwater is staffed largely by retired US military including former members of the special forces...."
