| \"The State Department’s employment of private contract security firms such as Blackwater Worlwide has added a corporate face to the Iraq War. Operating with diplomatic immunity and unrestrained aggressiveness, the actions of Blackwater have in many ways been to the detriment of enlisted US Military Personnel seeking to neutralize a violent insurgency and win the trust of a skeptical Iraqi public. The American use of corporations to wage war begged the question: What if the Insurgency began to sponsor corporations to further its own agenda? \" - Nick Owens |