FOXNews.com – U.S. & World – Marine Chopper Crash in Iraq Kills 31

Regardless of how you feel about the current situation in Iraq, please consider for a moment the lives of our Marines who are on duty in harm’s way. Accidents happen in peacetime as well as war, so political views have no place here.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A U.S. Marine helicopter transporting troops crashed Wednesday in the desert of western Iraq (search), killing 31 people in the single deadliest incident for U.S. troops there since the war began.