IRAQ WAR HITS NEARBY
6 from Louisiana Guard
killed by roadside bomb

From the Houston Chronicle:

Six of the seven soldiers killed last week when a Bradley Fighting Vehicle was blasted by an unusually powerful roadside bomb in Iraq were from a Louisiana National Guard unit based in Houma, La., military officials said Saturday.

Officials said it was the largest single loss by a National Guard unit in the Iraq war.

The seventh victim of the Jan. 6 attack near Baghdad, which flipped the 30-ton Bradley, was from a New York-based unit but was not immediately identified, officials said. All the soldiers were attached to Fort Hood's 1st Cavalry Division.

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Houma is about a forty five minute drive from where I'm sitting right now. This is hardcore, and yet another reminder that the only thing coming out of this war is death and more death. As John Kerry once said during another pointless war, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

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