Im going to shoot you for disagreeing with me! no wait! lets engage in dialog because that always works!, why didnt somebody think of that yet? Lets ask the terrorists why they are bombing everybody and mabey we can get them in touch with their feelings and then they wont hate us anymore! Lets disarm our military and declare pacifism as our official national defense! Whats your skillset dickhead? Being spoiled enough to think that dialoge solves the worlds problems apparently! Guess what though buddy?, men with the skillset of killing are the reason you can think that way. Enjoy your starbucks.

you people are feeding this paranoid hysteria. Its fine to be against the war, but these contractors are not the evil charecters you would like them to be to feed your creative hollywood ideals of what mercenaries are. Contractors are just like any other solider and all contractors were once in the military. You want to hate them because they make a decent paycheck but what you dont realize is they have all worked very hard to be able to get that decent paycheck. Just like you should support the troops you should support the contractors, they are the lions in the fight. Its the donkeys in D.C. you should be directing your anger. These men are for the most part responsible ethical proffesionals. The work they do is the work the military cant do or doesnt want to do. They get no ribbons and no cerimonial burial and they are dying just like the soliders. 500 or 600 bucks a day is good money but it doesnt really matter if you arent alive to spend it.Furthermore alot of these men got out of the military becaue of the polotics and corruption of the government/military so a DOD sponsored private military company isnt any diffrent than the military except less propoganda.These men fight for a paycheck yes but this is their skillset. More importantly they fight for each other on the battlefield a commom bond. Read about Irelands flight of the wild geese. In the 1700s over a period of 40 years 120,000 irish mercenaries died for other countries wars in europe. Why did they do this? Its a job first off but more importantly they were willing to fight for the sake of fighting. This is the spirit of mercenararies that is always overlooked. Stop talking about what you dont know about.