Private contractors follow the U.S. military into Iraq to handle everything short of combat: food service, laundry, housing, security, intelligence gathering, and interrogation. Robert Greenwald's film for Brave New Films tracks four companies at the center of the spending, Blackwater, KBR-Halliburton, CACI, and Titan, and lays out claims that they overbilled the government while delivering substandard work. Soldiers describe contaminated water and unsafe convoys; interviews with former employees and government auditors detail contracts awarded with little oversight and renewed despite documented failures. Archival footage of congressional hearings and news coverage from the war's early years anchors the numbers in specific incidents rather than abstractions. Iraqi civilians and American service members both appear as people who paid for the shortcuts, not just statistics in a report. The film builds its case as a chain of financial and human costs running from Halliburton's no-bid contracts to the checkpoints where undertrained security contractors opened fire. It ends with the money still flowing and no one held accountable.