I'm really going to have to quit bashing Bush now, I guess, since he's obviously doing everything that he possibly can to see to it that guys like me can at least find good paying jobs now - with wages in the $1000-$2000 per day range, no less - providing private security services in far-away places all over the world. What a guy! Go Bush Go! Job security has never been better - for modern-day ex-US Special Forces type mercenaries anyway - than it has been under the current Bush administration.

It's just a damned shame that the US government has already spent anywhere from a quarter of a million dollars up to several million dollars to train each special operations soldier, only to lose them to these private companies (like Blackwater) who will then charge the US government another $1000-$2000 a day to "rehire" them again, temporarily.

It's tax free income for us, too. Sweet! Plus it's all "outside the law"; there are no military "court martial" type provisions nor any other legal requirements for any of the civilian contracting companies or individial contractors that "accidentally" kill a few innocent civilians, or anything like that. They just quietly send them back home, or to another posting somewhere else if that happens, and nobody says anything more about it thereafter. Simple. What more could a mercenary ask for?