1.0 link 64130 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/two-soldiers-who-wrote-ny_b_64130.html Last month, seven 82nd Airborne soldiers in Iraq wrote a harsh and powerful assessment of the war. The historic piece ran as an op-ed in The New York Times, stating in part:

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.

Today, it was announced that two of those soldiers have died in a vehicle...

]]> 2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00