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I thought I would mention this, as ABC, NBC,CNN,CBS,PBS,NPR have elected to withhold this information from their listeners.
What the war? As soon as we subdue the opposition, get an Iraqi led, democratic form of gov't set up and running and can leave the country without fear of it becoming the next Taliban run Afghanistan.
I wouldn't hold my breath. We will succeed but it won't be as quick as everyone would like.
When there are no more Islamic terrorists standing. They don't discriminate against Christians and Jews by sex, age or race. They're equal opportunity killers and consider all infidels legitimate targets, including the thousands of females killed in the WTC and Pentagon attacks.
RIP Soldier. Stand your last roll call with honor and pride.
TIKRIT, IraqThe mournful notes of a solitary bugler blowing taps rose into the still desert air. In a final roll call, her name -- Analaura Esparza Gutierrez -- was intoned three times, with long pauses between, as if she might answer.
Hundreds of soldiers from the Army's 4th Infantry Division lined up in long, silent rows Friday to pay tribute to Esparza. The 21-year-old private first class was killed Wednesday when a bomb went off almost directly beneath the Humvee she was driving, ripping into her left leg and chest.
A member of a forward support company, she was returning to base after a supply run in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's restive hometown.
A world away, in a tidy middle-class neighborhood outside Houston, where flowers line the sidewalks and every other house seems to have a basketball hoop in the driveway, the cries of a mother who has lost her only child echoed through a cul-de-sac Friday.
"Que paso?" Armandina Esparza screamed again and again. "What happened?"
Her husband Agustin, his red-rimmed eyes peering through bifocals, remembered "a good daughter, a brave daughter. She was proud of what she did, not because she was a woman, but because she was a soldier."
Analaura Esparza, known to her friends as Lissy, was the 315th American soldier to die in Iraq or Kuwait since the start of the war. She was also the fourth female fatality, and her death underscored the lack of distinction between traditional combat and support roles in a war whose front lines are everywhere and nowhere.
That is particularly true in places like Tikrit, where U.S. troops are aggressively hunting insurgents loyal to the deposed Iraqi leader. Throughout the volatile area, every American soldier leaving the gates of highly fortified U.S. compounds is under orders to consider himself -- or herself -- to be on combat footing.
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