Blackwater Said to Approve Iraqi Payoffs After Shootings-NYT

What is being done by Obama to change world’s perception of US as a well meaning power will be undone by these corporates.
By the way, is US short of people to serve the army so as to outsource security on foreign soil?
Or is it that private employee’s life is cheaper than th Govt. employee?
Story:
WASHINGTON — Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html?_r=1&emc=na

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