December 21, 2004

Mosul Attack

It won't be a merry Christmas for those soldiers attacked in Mosul nor for the families of those killed. A really awful part of this story is two soldiers from the 276th Engineer Battalion of the Virginia National Guard were killed. They're going home in about a month, and battalion lost no one--until today.

"Mosul Attack Kills 24, Wounds 64; Local Reporters on Scene" [via Michelle Malkin]

UPDATE: Samizdata's Johnathan Pearce writes:

As an aside, it makes me wonder how those critics beating up Donald Rumsfeld at the moment would have written about the calibre of F. D. Roosevelt's defence chiefs 50 years ago, during the Battle of the Ardennes, better known as the Battle of the Bulge. Andrew Sullivan might have been calling for Eishenhower's head on a stick by now.