Privatization of war is simply wrong. When the most formidable military power in the history of the world spends hundreds of millions of $$ to employ mercenaries to engage in secret activities it becomes criminal. And since more than one person is involved, this is a criminal conspiracy, yet there will be no indictments because the overseers, the trustees, are themselves participants in the crimes.
The primary purpose here is to transfer massive amounts of public wealth into private hands; to rob the treasury. That has been successfully accomplished, to the tune of billions of dollars. The secondary purpose is to make an end run around the entire military chain of command/protocol/ROE system. The administration gets its own private army to do its will without question and without barriers such as the Geneva Convention or the UCMJ.
They've mostly gotten away with it, too. These 'subcontractors' have committed acts in Iraq that would get them life imprisonment, if not the the death sentence, had they done the same things in this country.
GWB is CIC of the U.S. military. Nowhere in the Constitution is he granted the power to hire a private army of thugs to do his will, like some Columbian drug lord (at least Columbian drug lords use their own money)
The U.S. Congress is complicit in this conspiracy because they've been writing the checks and completely neglecting their oversight responsibilities. The result is that the U.S. government has become a criminal enterprise, yet there will be no prosecutions because we are all asleep.
Our decline has begun, we've lost any moral authority we once had (earned at the expense of the blood of millions of real patriots). Thanks, GWB, you've done more damage to this country in 8 years than all of our enemies over the past 232 years. May you burn in hell.