The Bush-administration "outsourced" partially Iraq war by engaging private security firms such as Blackwater and Haliburton, in order to escape unwanted questions by US Congress and to lower costs of warfare. Theses firms provided diplomacy and oil escorting, food transports and here and there battles.

Six years after two supposedly ex-Blackwater-members are asking the opening of a civil process against Blackwater for reasons such as promoting a culture without law, murdering of civil persons, organizing a women's sexring, child abuse and smuggling weapons!

Already in 2007 Blackwater was in the news for opening fire on civilians and killing 17 people. In relation to this the government of Iraq ended the protection of penal prosecution for firms like this.

The whole article you can find: http://www.taz.de/1/politik/amerika/artikel/1/letzte-chance-auf-ein-urteil/

I do really hope that at least they will have success in their process! But not only this, the way war is organized has changed. It has become a Business-as-usual. All wars get more and more fought by paid soldiers and private security firms, supported by low-cost-personal from Asia...more than 80.000 served in Iraq without any insurance, reported by the ARD, a German public channel in April 2008.

Read whole article on: http://www.taz.de/1/leben/medien/artikel/1/die-schattenarmee-der-usa/

Let us not remember the reasons for which Iraq has been invaded...