Iraq, Another Bloody Day

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The remains of two U.S. contractors who were kidnapped in Iraq have been found according to the F.B.I. on Monday. The two had been held by their kidnappers for over a year. Their families have been notified by the F.B.I.

They have been identified as Ronald Withrow of Roaring Springs, Texas, abducted on January 5, 2007, and John Roy Young of Kansas City, Missouri, who was captured on November 16, 2006.

Young worked for Crescent Security Group and Withrow worked for JPI Worldwide Inc. based out of Las Vegas.

Four U.S. soldiers were killed on Sunday night in a roadside bombing. Those deaths have taken the death toll of U.S. military over 4,000 since the start of the Iraqi War.

President Bush made remarks about lives lost in Iraq at the State Department on Monday.

“One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve, because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come,’ ” he said. “I have vowed in the past and I will vow so long as I’m president to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain; that, in fact, there’s an outcome that will merit the sacrifice that civilian and military alike have made.”

At least 35 Iraqi civilians also died on Sunday as the result of suicide bombings, mortar fire and gunmen who opened fire on a outdoor market.

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