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Posted on 09/12/2007 11:50:44 AM PDT by Cardhu
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NEW YORK The Op-Ed by seven active duty U.S. soldiers in Iraq questioning the war drew international attention just three weeks ago. Now two of the seven are dead.
Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died Monday in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which was reported just as Gen. David Petraeus was about to report to Congress on progress in the "surge." The names have just been released.
Gen. Petraeus was questioned about the message of the op-ed in testimony before a Senate committee yesterday.
The controversial Times column on Aug. 19 was called "The War As We Saw It," and expressed skepticism about American gains in Iraq. “To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched,” the group wrote.
It closed: "We need not talk about our morale. As committed soldiers, we will see this mission through."
Mora, 28, hailed from Texas City, Texas, and was a native of Ecuador, who had just become a U.S. citizen. He was due to leave Iraq in November and leaves behind a wife and daughter. Gray, 26, had lived in Ismay, Montana, and is also survived by a wife and infant daughter.
The accident in Iraq occurred when a cargo truck the men were riding in overturned.
The Daily News in Galveston interviewed Mora's mother, who confirmed his death and that he was one of the co-authors of the Times piece. The article today relates: "Olga Capetillo said that by the time Mora submitted the editorial, he had grown increasingly depressed. 'I told him God is going to take care of him and take him home,' she said. 'But yesterday is the darkest day for me.'”
One of the other five authors of the Times piece, Staff Sergeant Jeremy Murphy, an Army Ranger and reconnaissance team leader, was shot in the head while the article was being written. He was expected to survive after being flown to a military hospital in the United States.
The DUmmies will be in a tizzy about this.
Bush did it!
Rest in peace.
Godspeed.
You scoff but he was just over there.
Then he wasn't an author.
I hope he recovers fully and quickly.
How many men died on bases in the US in the past month?
Their much reported “Bush’s fault Iraq War death list” (there is no such government or military accounting) at one point included a woman who died while crossing the highway in Kansas while on leave.
They did not die because “our troops are still in Iraq” but the media is happy that they are dead because they somehow feel that the antiwar sentiments are “validated”.
There will be a serious post on DU or Kos within 48 hours claiming that the Bushitlerburton cartel had these soldiers killed to silence them. And the crowd on both those sites will buy into it and believe it. Count on it.
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Truly sad - how against the odds that three of the seven should have been killed or wounded.
ANSWER, in their flyer "Counter-revolution & Resistance in Iraq" closes with "Now is the time for the anti-war movement, here and abroad, to pledge UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT of Iraq's anti-colonial resistnce."
Saturday the grave robbing ghouls of the left, who pledge unconditional support for their killers, will no doubt publically and very visibly "honor" these soldiers in some kind of propoganda ploy.
Is that supposed to be funny?
If so, keep trying.
Wow! That didn't take long!
I'd like to know the circumstances.
Right. Rove probably pulled the trigger, though.
We’ve seen enough fake reporting by the left out of Iraq.
I’ll wait until all the facts are in before I form an opinion.
May the Lord welcome these men home and look after their young families in their time of need.
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