News from the front:
U.S. Marines were sent to rescue wounded members of the 507th Maintenance Company on March 23, the day the Fort Bliss unit was attacked in Iraq, but nine of the Marines who took part in the rescue effort were killed and eight others are missing, Pentagon officials said Sunday.
Meanwhile, efforts by the Red Cross to secure access to the American POWs have not succeeded, officials said Monday.
U.S. military officials also confirmed that the four bodies discovered a few days ago in shallow graves are of American troops, but have still not determined the branch of the military in which the troops served, much less their names.
“They have not been identified yet,” Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said Sunday from Doha, Qatar.
Yeah, even wars for just causes well and truly suck.
That’s not to say that the overall effort isn’t succeeding, and mostly brilliantly at that. Read today’s Ralph Peters for a little pick-me-up.
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