That’s the latest total of U.S. servicemembers killed in Iraq, updated after the most recent attack in which a roadside bomb killed 5 U.S. military personnel
A roadside bomb killed five American military personnel Wednesday morning outside the central Iraqi city of Fallujah, the U.S.-led Coalition Press Information Center said.
The fatalities bring the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 600, 408 of them in hostile action.
In a second strike in Fallujah, at least four people died in a grenade attack on two cars, eyewitnesses said.
And if that’s not bad enough. It gets worse. One wonders how much of a statement this is about how Iraqis feel about U.S. presence in their country.
Crowds gathered around the burning cars and dragged at least one of the bodies through the streets, witnesses said.
That this unfolds as Condoleezza Rice prepares to testify before the 9/11 commission about the charges of Richard Clarke is, well, ironic and sad. Those servicemembers wouldn’t be in Iraq had this administration not been so obsessed about placing them there that they were willing to ignore real threats and invent imaginary ones to further their aims.
My thoughts are with the families of those who have died in this war, in this country and in Iraq.