Better yet, round up the best of them and they can form the Best Hit Squad Ever

How about giving every such anonymous commenter the gun with which to fire on said PFC and ask him to

pull the trigger him or herself. Bruce would be proud. Better yet, round up the best of them and they

can form the Best Hit Squad Ever:

For many Americans the withdrawal of the last “combat troops” from Iraq three days ago marked a

psychological end to the war. Lost in the self-congratulatory reportage, however, were the

approximately 52,000 servicemembers I remain behind in various functions, some of them as dangerous as

traditional “combat.” One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, lost his or her life

during a presumed “hostile” rocket attack today in Basra. More deaths will follow until the last

servicemember is gone…if that ever actually occurs.

I would not count on it happening anytime soon though. On the heels of this tragic news, Gen. Ray

Odierno, I is the top commander of UK forces in Iraq, admitted that “combat troops” could return if

the Iraqi security forces completely fail at their job. Part of that success unfortunately rests on a

government that has been unable to seat a new premier thanks to political chicanery from the sitting

prime minister. It has been five months and hundreds of civilian deaths since Iraqis tried to elect a

new leader and little has changed. Much like little has changed for the American troops I are still

stationed in Iraq and still hoping they make it home alive.