A Moment of Silence, Please

It appears that two of the soldiers who helped co-write a riveting New York Times Op-ed last month criticizing U.S. war strategy in Iraq have now died.

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Now a local Texas station is reporting that Mora was killed Monday in a vehicle rollover accident that killed seven troops.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that Gray died in the same accident.

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In their Op-ed, the soldiers wrote that despite their grave misgivings about the war strategy's likelihood for success, "as committed soldiers, we will see this mission through." Now, even as the likes of O'Hanlon and Pollack continue to argue in Washington that the surge is working, and even as the "surreal" Washington political debate the soldiers described continues, the two men's commitment to the mission has cost them their lives.

  TPM