Look Like Us. Talk Like Us. We Die.

Save killing everybody in the whole damned country, what on earth are 21,000 extra troops going to do? Add to that the fact that, because the soldiers have to eat and sleep, they will be working shifts. There will never be 21,000 troops on the mission at one time. Divide it by 3 or 4 shifts and you've got 5,000-7,000 extra troops to spread around Iraq. That's all but useless assistance.

Now these folks - the enemy - have mastered disguising themselves as American soldiers and are speaking English! If you think this isn't just an amuse bouche before one big fat smörgåsbord ... Man, this is a mess!

In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.

The U.S. military confirmed a report earlier Friday by The Associated Press that three of the soldiers were dead and one was mortally wounded with a gunshot to the head when they were found in a neighboring province, about 25 miles from the compound where they were captured. A fifth soldier was killed in the initial attack on the compound.

The new account contradicted a U.S. military statement on Jan. 20, the day of the raid on an Iraqi governor's office, that five soldiers were killed "repelling" the attack.

The security breakdown and the dramatic kidnapping and murder of four soldiers leaked out just as President Bush faces stiffening congressional opposition over his plan to flood Baghdad and surrounding regions with 21,500 more American troops. Two of Congress's most vocal war critics, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha, were in the Iraqi capital as the news broke.

I just hope Nancy and John get out alive. It is only a matter of time before one of our politicians or diplomats ends up being caught in the cross fire.

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