Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War,

From a Mind-Numbing $2 Billion a Week to a Mind-Blowing $3 Billion a Week: What Will it Take to Get the Congress to Control Contractor Costs?

Dina Rasor, 08.31.2007
The military's track record on this war will show that they have not done the best for the soldiers but, instead, they have been bullied to do the best for contractors.

CheneyBush's "mercenary" legions

As with Hitler's Brownshirts, CheneyBush have created their own private legions by outsourcing a huge raft of national security functions to private contractors. These "mercenary" forces are bought and paid for by the American taxpayer, but are not accountable to anyone other than their corporate bosses and the financial "bottom line." Their existence and power does catastrophic damage to democracy.