More from the article as follows:
"The Nisour Square shooting was the bloodiest and most controversial episode involving Blackwater in the Iraq war. At midday on Sept. 16, 2007, a Blackwater convoy opened fire on Iraqi civilians in the crowded intersection, spraying automatic weapons fire in ways that investigators later claimed was indiscriminate, and even launching grenades into a nearby school. Seventeen Iraqis were killed and dozens more were wounded."
"Those responses deeply worried Blackwater officials. Before the Nisour Square shootings, the company had operated in Iraq without a license largely because the Iraqi government had never enforced the rules. Being blocked from the country would have been costly — the State Department deal was Blackwater’s single biggest contract. From 2004 through today, the company has collected more than $1.5 billion for its work protecting American diplomats and providing air transportation for them inside Iraq."

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Our money going to bribe Iraqi officials. All those lives lost. All of our dead and wounded soldiers. This is beyond the pale.

Unfortunately, it's business as usual. "Greed is Good" and "The End justifies the Means" in accordance with our mantra of war-profiteering, capitalist embracing, privatize-everything, U.S. philosophy. Personally, I'm sick of it. It grows like cancer and is eating the people of the world alive.

Another good reason to bring our troops home.