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    Default Re: What makes a mercenary?

    Quote Originally Posted by hellenes
    They ARE mercenaries. PERIOD.
    They werent forced to go to Iraq, they werent serving their country out of duty and devotion, they are professional employed for money.
    It makes me sick seeing all those coffins covered with the flag, what about the WWII veterans? Those who died for their country with no monetary gain (on both sides)? My grandfather fought against Mussolini not because the governement would give him money but because he was defending his family and his homeland. So its time to stop pretending that those mercenaries in Iraq are some kind of heroes because heroes dont fight for money...

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    go home seriously go home I dont ever want to see you agian you hypocrite
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    Default Re: What makes a mercenary?

    Quote Originally Posted by hellenes
    They ARE mercenaries. PERIOD.
    They werent forced to go to Iraq, they werent serving their country out of duty and devotion, they are professional employed for money.
    It makes me sick seeing all those coffins covered with the flag, what about the WWII veterans? Those who died for their country with no monetary gain (on both sides)? My grandfather fought against Mussolini not because the governement would give him money but because he was defending his family and his homeland. So its time to stop pretending that those mercenaries in Iraq are some kind of heroes because heroes dont fight for money...

    Hellenes
    Ever hear of the US 101st Airborne Division? One of the more decorated US units in World War II - on the same side as your grandfather. Parachute infantry got extra pay every month because of the hazard of jumping out of "perfectly good airplaines." And one of the reasons cited by some of its (now retired) members for joining was the extra pay.

    Are they mercenaries? They were volunteers who were paid more than conscripts to fight.

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    Default Re: What makes a mercenary?

    I always consider people who are part timers and/or not under permanent allegiance of the particular nation as mercenaries regardless their motivations are. Also, everybody needs money and everybody is motivated by money at some point. Sure, I could just go out there and claim that I love USA but why? It is because its rich "land" which translates to money. All the "mercenaries" who crusaded weren't of French or whatever. They were Genoese or whateverese. Basically your daily policemen, firefighters and coastguards are not mercenaries. So if US pilots are gun down, fallen onto desert and hiring a noble camelman of Syrian Sultanate to guide them or work with them, that is your mercenary. That's just me anyway.

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