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Well, victory is in the air.....
And al-Sadr supporters are headed to Baghdad to protest the 5th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, which fell one month after the US invasion.

Here's another article reinforcing the "victory in the air."

Two War Critic Soldiers Killed in Iraq


Omar Mora and Yance Gray, Who Died Monday, Were Two of the Seven Soldiers Who Penned a Controversial Op-ed About the War's Progress


By MARCUS BARAM
Sept. 12, 2007


The last words of the op-ed written by seven soldiers serving in Iraq were courageous and poignant.
Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26 (l.) and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, two of the authors of a New York Times editorial critical of the war were killed...
Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26 (l.) and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, two of the authors of a New York Times editorial critical of the war were killed in Baghdad Monday when the five-ton cargo truck they were riding in overturned.


(AP Photo )

"We need not talk about our morale. As committed soldiers, we will see this mission through."


Sadly, that mission came to an end for two of those soldiers just three weeks after that editorial was published in The New York Times.
Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, and Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, two of the authors of "The



War as We Saw It," were killed in Baghdad Monday when the five-ton cargo truck they were riding in overturned.


Another of the authors, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Murphy, was shot in the head while the group was working on the article.


The controversial Aug. 19 editorial gained international attention for its skepticism about the American war effort: "To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched."



Link: ABC News: U.S. Troops Critical of War Die in Iraq