I agree with you. A youtube video--don't recall if it's the one I lined to--said there were 120,000 contracted 'soldiers' in Iraq. I think organizations like that are dangerous because they are accountable to no one. At some point a government will say, "I'm sorry, but you must disband." Yeah. So who then will force them to disband if they decide they don't want to? I mean, how does one tell who's who without a script?

IMO, this is really Bush's private armyy, and I think he'll employ it to attempt a coup d'etat. I would love to be wrong about that.