you know I get to thinking about the mercernaries in Iraq but isn't maybe the correct term

[madokie]

for them is crusaders. just asking

[tridim]

1. How about, "well paid murderers".

But yea, crusaders fits too.

[spanone]

2. wow, dictionary definition of crusader

1. (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.

i think blackwater is more interested in profits than any 'cause'

[Mika]

11. It fits. The 'cause' has always been corrupt and for profit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieyjfZDUIc

[panader0]

3. Blackwater's approach about civilian or insurgents--

Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out. (The Christian God of course)

[sandyd921]

4. No the correct term for them is

thugs. :puke:

[Lasher]

5. Nope.

Crusaders were motivated by religious belief. Security contractors are mainly after the big bucks. Mercenaries.

[tuckessee]

6. Seriously,

why would they be crusaders & the US military not?

[kurth]

7. The Untouchables

Their license to kill is for real.

[Old and In the Way]

8. I think 'Hessians' would be closer.

Really, what's the difference between the British occupation of the colonies and what we are doing in Iraq?

[angrycarpenter]

9. you may be right

the crusaders came to the holy land to claim it as their own. Today what land is more holy than oil fields? There is no doubt that the people behind this seizure of Iraq would not shed a tear if every last iraqi were to just go away.

[patrice]

10. Hello AngryCarpenter. Welcome.

You're not exactly brand-new, but I'm always happy to see anyone with a count of less than 500.

You're right about the Crusaders; it wasn't all a spiritual cause with them, especially the "nobility"; it was also about claiming trade deals.

[liberal renegade]

12. Contract Killers

with no fear of prosecution.....

[Warpy]

13. The head of Blackwater is a fundy loon

and I'm quite sure he's raising his private army for Armageddon.

Iraq is just advanced training for his army of scum.

Aren't their laws somewhere about raising a private military in the US?