Get Out. Now.
Following a recurring pattern established in Afghanistan, U.S. aircraft have apparently shot up another wedding, this time in western Iraq, killing dozens.
We had no business going there; we've got even less staying.
Iraqi witnesses said in a video distributed by The Associated Press that at least 20 people were killed and five others critically wounded early Wednesday when planes fired on a wedding celebration in an Iraqi village near the Syrian border.Meanwhile, the same article reports the deaths of two more soldiers.
The Pentagon said it is investigating.
A man on the video said all homes in the village were destroyed in the attack at about 3 a.m. local time Wednesday.
The video showed at least a dozen bodies, including small children, wrapped in blankets for burial as they were unloaded from a truck.
Men with picks and shovels were digging a series of graves in the video.
We had no business going there; we've got even less staying.
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