[TexKat]

How sad! SICKENING....

That it is shield, truly!

[shield]

This is a sad end, a result of a basic tactical error by the leader of the group to which these soldiers belonged. As I mentioned below, we'll learn from this. This will be the lesson of the day from every commander out there. When you have a group that small, you never split them. You either all go, or you all stay.

There's another lesson, an unofficial one, which will be passed among the troops themselves. Never surrender. They'll just kill you anyway. It's better to go down fighting.

Then we've go this: Missing troops found murdered in Iraq