Iraqi Soldiers Killing More Americans

I was going to just add this to the post below, but I think it deserves it's own little soapbox. Remember the attacks by "Iranians" on soldiers in Karbala a few weeks back? As usual, it turns out to have been something quite different, much more along these lines:

According to a U.S. Army investigation, the Iraqi Police assisted a brazen January assault on U.S. troops in the southern city of Karbala -- an attack that a U.S. military spokesman tied to Iranian operatives earlier this month.

USA Today obtained a copy of the Army's February 27 report. The report found that the Karbala policemen exploited "a level of trust" that U.S. commanders placed with them to provide security for a provincial headquarters where a contingent of soldiers were stationed. In the assault, one of the most sophisticated on U.S. troops to date, gunmen passed themselves off as part of a U.S. security team and entered the compound past police checkpoints, eventually killing five soldiers.

USA Today reports that in advance of the attack, Iraqi police abandoned their stations, as did Iraqi civilian employees of the compound's PX. The gunmen exhibited signs of knowing how U.S. forces would defend themselves under attack, and used that apparent knowledge to pin down and abduct soldiers and officers.

How're'ya liken' those Alamo's these days?

This is wrong on so many levels. The fact the media took the stenograph of the administrations version of events (Iran did it!), the fact we keep arming and training the insurgency, and the fact we keep putting Americans in harms way. It's immoral and criminal. But as long as Republicans continue to not have a backbone in dealing with their President, we're screwed.