Just the latest tragedy in Iraq:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - British soldiers backed by U.S. military helicopters battled insurgents near the Kuwaiti border Friday, close to where a private security team of four Americans and an Austrian were kidnapped. A top police official said a criminal gang had snatched the men and demanded ransom.
Private security team? Is that straight from the PR materials?
Let's not mince words and call these people exactly what they are: Mercenaries.
They represent the Bush agenda of privatizing our military--a policy the Democrats must forcefully reject and reverse in the new Congress. We need to show the American people just how disgusting these profiteers--focusing especially on those who run these companies--have been, and how destructive they are to the military as a whole.