All Things Conservative links to a report by Michael Yon. In this report, he looks at a village that was taken over by Al-Qaeda.
The village had the apparent misfortune of being located near a main road—about 3.5 miles from FOB Warhorse—that al Qaeda liked to bomb. Al Qaeda had taken over the village.
The village was abandoned. All the people were gone. But where?
I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging.
Even the villagers animals were slaughtered. The bodies of murdered children were booby-trapped.
Any reason not to expect this all over Iraq, if we pull out?
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My son is a captain in the army and has had 2 tours of duty; one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. It does seem that we have lost site of the goal. Or, maybe its the messenger (Bush) that's the problem. Also, something has to be said for the fact that there have been no attacks on US soil since 911.
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