We're Only In It For The Money

It turns out that the Iraqi insurgency was a coalition of the bribed.

"I was out of work and needed the money," said Abu Nawall, the nom de guerre of an unemployed metal worker who was paid as much as $1,300 a month as an insurgent. He spoke in a phone interview from an Iraqi military base where he is being detained. "How else could I support my family?"

U.S. military commanders say that insurgents across the country are increasingly motivated more by money than ideology and that a growing number of insurgent cells, struggling to pay recruits, are turning to gangster-style racketeering operations.

Gee it sounds as though the insurgency was just a bunch of mercenaries. After glorifying them for years, will the left now just say "screw them."