Blackwater is the poster model for what's wrong with private mercernary companies introduced into Iraq and supported by Bush administration, friend and protector of corporate war profiteers.

This company, whose employees killed 17 innocent civilians and wounded others in Nisour Square in a bloody, unprovoked massacre last year, had its contract renewed by Bush and Condi's politicized State Department even though the company is still under multiple investigations for its reckless conduct and other alleged criminal actions.

Because of the Bush administration's infamous Order 17 by Bushite L. Paul Bremer former Coalition Provisional Authority's tyrannical head, all foreign contractors, including private mercenary companies like Blackwater, were given full immunity from Iraqi law.

As Jeremy Scahill writes in The Nation: "Despite the fact that contractors now outnumber US soldiers in Iraq, there have to date only been two prosecutions of private personnel.

"There is great debate in the legal community about whether crimes committed by personnel from Blackwater--which is a State Department contractor--could be, or should be, prosecuted by the military. There are also jurisdictional questions about whether the current US civilian law on contractors--the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act--could be effectively applied to Blackwater's forces. Congress is considering expanding that Act, but has met resistance from the Administration. The changes have passed the House but the bill is now stuck in the Senate. The bigger issue, however, is that the White House has displayed a complete refusal to hold armed contractors accountable in any effective way. Scott Horton, a lecturer at Colombia Law School, has argued that contractors could be tried under the US War Crimes Act, but that has not happened. 'There clearly is jurisdiction and a basis to act against them,' Horton says. 'But the Bush Administration doesn't want to go there, doesn't want to touch that. I think they've made that point clear.' 

"For all practical purposes, Iraq War contractors have operated in an enforcement- and accountability-free zone, where de facto immunity and impunity have gone hand in hand.

This is typical of the Bush administration and its politicized departments and agencies filled with Bushites who loyally do the president's bidding, no questions asked or allowed, the hell with law and jurisdiction.

As Scahill concludes in his article, "...Americans of Blackwater alleged to have gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians walk around free men, shows just how morally bankrupt the outsourcing of Washington's war--and the de facto immunity offered to the shadow army-- has been from day one."

The terrible realities of Bushland.  And there are those who want another four years of this with Republican occupation supporter and cheerleader, John Sidney McBush!