Ah, OK Little Hawk the penny has suddenly dropped. The rules here appear to be that you can make any outrageous, populist, "right-on-statement" or reference and it must be accepted as truth without question, while anyone making any sort of counter case has to explain the alpha to omega of it - Bullshit. You come out with crap such as you have done then be fully prepared to defend it.

Private security companies working in Iraq Little Hawk, go and you look it up I think you will find that the US companies were not by any stretch of the imagination the largest operating there. Halliburton, your other example, only worked for the US Government under the terms of a five year frame agreement contract with the Pentagon that they won by process of competitive tender in October 1998, doubt that?? Then ask Waxman and Drexler.