MP killed in attack one day before departure

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=22834

After a year in combat, Sgt. Arthur Mastrapa was waiting outside the post exchange Wednesday when an enemy rocket ended his life. He was supposed to fly home Thursday.

Mastrapa, 36, a military policeman from Apopka, Fla., was one of three troops killed in the attack on the logistical base at Balad Air Base. Three 127 mm rockets hit the camp, base officials said, including one direct hit on the PX, which was filled with shopping troops.

The attack wounded 25 other people, said Maj. Richard Spiegel, a base spokesman.

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Mastrapa was researching hotels online and had just found a nice place to take his wife, Jennifer, for her birthday next week. He hung around the PX area hoping to go back online and book a romantic getaway for her, his friends said.

[Solly Mack]

1. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn.

and Bush flitters hither and dither...alive and well.

[salin]

2. while happily ignoring

the daily deaths wrought in his wake.

[tabasco]

3. As Ann Coulter would say ...

"he got his hair mussed."

Goddam dirty warmongering assholes! Get our troops out of that hellhole NOW!

RIP SGT Mastrapa.