So too, then, the leftists outside of blogdom.

TCS is a lobbying group, not a blog.

And you continue to misrepresent Kos' comment on the mercenaries which calls into question your honesty.

you are THE last person on the 'net today to comment on honesty, JadeGold.

The evidence is all over the 'net just how genuine you are.

There is no misrepresentation of the comments made by the (D) fund-raiser, Kos. His comments were clear enough, how many ways do you read, "I feel nothing over the death of merceneries [sic]. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them"?

I think Kos misrepresented what these men were doing by saying they were involved in "war for profit", when the job a security agent is a far cry from being a front line soldier or Marine.

Maybe you should cover it on your blog.

http://jadegold.blogspot.com

Actually, Jade, no one said TCS was a blog. It is an online publication - an e-magazine if you will, with a variety of contributing authors who are not lobbyists at all. It has a general point-of-view, sure. But so does The New Republic.

Bill: The Right has its darlings, too, like Andrew Sullivan (and here, and especially here).

I see one of my devoted fans has saw fit to repost Kos' comment:

"I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them"

And, for the record, Mr. Hobb's comment:

Daily Kos blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's comment essentially cheering the deaths of four civilian contractors",

My emphasis added to highlight Mr. Hobb's dishonesty.

Mr. Hobbs claims Kos was "cheering" the deaths--yet, thanks to my stalker, we see Kos' words were that he "felt nothing."

'felt nothing' certainly doesn't equal 'cheering.'

I see my little pilotfish also objects to the correct use of the word "mercenaries."

As a vet, I understand this is the correct terminology to describe those killed in Fallujah.

BTW, many other vets and/or rightwingers understand "mercenaries" is the correct word:

James Joyner

Peter Singer

The Agonist

Eugene Volokh

Jadie, put a sock in it.

Nope, Art 47 (d), I quote "(d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;"

This says that if the "mercenary" is a member of one of the conflicted parties (ie. the US is a conflicted party and they were US citizens), then they are not classified as mercenaries.

Even with that, the 4 CIVILIAN CONTRACTORS were tricked by ICDC personnel (maybe false ones) into going thru Fallujah. They were promised a safe way and once into the city, the ICDC blocked off the street and the ambush killed them.

On other news.

How about this new bigot eruption from KoS site. His site just made a completey offensive remark about Colin Powell.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/12/183155/559

I quote, "Yes suh! Yes suh! Right away suh!"

I don't know why Bill doesn't ban you. You add nothing, NOTHING, to discussions here. You are some perverse left wing echo chamber.

Bill, do us all a favor and dump this guy, yee gads.

They're mercenaries, Joey. Plain and simple.

BTW, I'm hearing a lot from US servicemen who say these mercenaries are causing more problems than they are helping.

Goldie

So do you receive these transmissions from your tinfoil hat. Good model, you must have paid top dollar for that one. It must be the same one you got your bogus AWOL crap from. ;)

Did you even bother reading the articles you quoted.

Eugene Volokh didn't call them mercenaries. He used "mercenaries" with scare quotes. The same ones Reuters uses when they want to say bs.

Peter Singer never mentions the word mercenary even once in his article.

James Joyner later posits that he is not sure of their status.

The agonist calls them mercenaries.

You quoted 4 articles. 2 do no call them mercenaries, one is not sure, the other is.

What a load of cow manure.

what no rejoinder on KoS's racist remarks. By your remarkable standards, then you must agree with them.

So are you going to do the right thing and say it's wrong.

How about Gary Trudeau calling Condi Brown sugar. What say you there?

I've banned half a dozen IP addressess associated with JadeGold (The "Gold" stands for "Gold Standard for Idiocy"). I think he just goes to the mall and uses the various PCs at the Dell and Comcast cable kiosks or something. Or maybe he works at a Gateway outlet. If JG goes silent when they close their retail stores, we'll know that's the case.

In the meantime, he does a very good job showing just how stupid many on the Left are.

I thought it was a particularly powerful form of asiatic heroin. That would explain the semantic and rhetorical content ;)

Are you doing full IP-banning, or do you just ban the specific address?

Also, JG has discovered anonymizers. Shocking, I know. Ban them, too.

Hold on now, guys.

Yes, Jade is mind-numbingly frustrating, willfully ignorant, close-minded, arrogant, dishonest (extremely so), slanderous, obnoxious and more partisan than ANY individual I've ever heard from, but I think he serves a purpose.

I get a kick out of the many rational voices on this blog that continue to refute his claims and *ideas* and then watching him resort to slander and lies attempting to defend his positions. Once his stances are obliterated JDAM-like, he scurries off like a cockroach to the next topic.

I think it's important for us to see how the other side thinks (in his case, doesn't). Jade is not an isolated basketcase...he's representative of many out there who actively root against America while convincing themselves they do not.

Although I'm not sure exactly how or why, I think Jade serves a purpose. Banning him won't make his particular psychosis go away. I say let him keep trolling, and let the truth keep trying to set his mind free!

Sen. Byrd would have made a wonderful Senator during the Civil War, a Confederate Senator!