Two of the seven GIs in Iraq who wrote a controversial New York Times op-ed piece questioning the war have been killed.
Sergeants Omar Mora and Yance Gray died Monday when a cargo truck overturned in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed and 11 injured just as General David Petraeus was about to report to Congress on progress of the surge. Their names were released today.
A third co-contributor, Staff Sergeant Jeremy Murphy, was shot in the head while the article was being written and is being treated for a severe brain injury at a military hospital in the U.S.
The op-ed was titled The War As We Saw It and expressed skepticism about U.S. gains in Iraq because, they wrote, Americans had long ago worn out their welcome and any possibility that they could win through counterinsurgency warfare was far-fetched.
Immigrant Basher Alert: Mora was a native of Ecuador and had just become a U.S. citizen.
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