Behind Blackwater Inc and Bush's Undeclared Surge (Halliburton/Cheney)

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“Our Mercenaries in Iraq: Blackwater Inc and Bush's Undeclared Surge” Jeremy Scahill,
Democracy Now! 1/26/07
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1559232



As Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney commissioned Halliburton to study means of privatizing the US military bureaucracy. As Vice President he has ushered in the resulting groundwork for the post-9/11 corporate war profiteer bonanza.

The company that most embodies this privatization of the military industrial complex (a primary part of the Project for a New American Century and the neoconservative revolution) is, not Halliburton, but the private security firm Blackwater. Blackwater is the most powerful mercenary firm in the world, with 20,000 soldiers, the world’s largest private military base, and a fleet of twenty aircraft, including helicopter gunships.

It is headed by a very rightwing Christian-supremacy activist, ex-Navy Seal named Erik Prince, whose family has had deep neo-conservative connections since the 1990s. Bush’s latest call for voluntary military corps to accommodate the “surge” will add to over half a billion dollars in federal contracts to Blackwater, allowing Prince to create a private army to defend Christendom around the world against Muslims and others.