Not good.
Iraqi witnesses say they saw two U.S. soldiers who survived an attack at a checkpoint near Baghdad being led away by masked insurgents to a pair of cars, The New York Times is reporting in its Sunday edition.
"There are intelligence indicators [that] they may have been captured alive rather than killed," a senior military official told CNN on Saturday night.
One U.S. soldier was killed in the attack, and a massive search was under way Saturday for the two who are unaccounted for.
...
"I was shocked to see the Humvee -- nothing seemed to be wrong with it," Hadi told the Times. "Then I heard the men shouting 'God is great!' and I saw that they had taken the Americans with them. The gunmen took them and drove away."
Yusufiya, about 20 miles southwest of Baghdad, is part of Iraq's "Triangle of Death," where insurgents are active and there is widespread lawlessness.
What was that some Republicans were saying just the other day? Something about...
offering amnesty to the very people who do these sorts of things?
And they say we don't support the troops.
[Update] - Major Danby makes a good point with this comment
...On Thursday, a bunch of Republican Senators, out of the blue, start saying that it makes sense that Iraqis who kill American troops will eventually receive amnesty.
Almost immediately, U.S. troops get kidnapped.
The Republicans basically declared open season on U.S. troops -- promising eventual forgiveness -- and the insurgents read them loud and clear.
If American troops are tortured to death, it will be because Republicans said that it won't be a problem so long as they eventually come around to our side.
...