[Matthew James]

I disagree with the author. Working as security guards does not make them mercenaries.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

To me, you are a mercenary if you would work for the other side if they offered a better deal. If no financial inducement could cause you to switch sides, you're not a mercenary.

[Warren_Piece]

Anybody see this yesterday?

'Screw Them'

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, who runs the Angry Left Daily Kos blog, had this to say in a post yesterday about the murders of four American contractors who were helping to deliver food in Fallujah, Iraq:

Every death should be on the front page

Let the people see what war is like. This isn't an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush's folly.

That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries [sic]. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

This made me even angrier than the mob in Fallujah.