Keep in mind that George W. Bush’s administration was a monster of privatization. It had its own set of crony corporations, including Halliburton, KBR, Bechtel, and various oil companies, as well as a set of mercenary rent-a-gun outfits like Blackwater, DynCorp, and Triple Canopy that came into their own in this period.
It took the plunge into Iraq in March 2003, sweeping those corporations and an increasingly privatized military in with it .... http://www.globalresearch.ca