About a month ago, the NYT published an op-ed from seven infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division. The piece, “The War as We Saw It,” was a sweeping condemnation of everything we’ve heard from war supporters.

Today, on the fifth anniversary of the congressional authorization of military force in Iraq, the WaPo runs a powerful op-ed of its own from 12 former Army captains who served in Iraq — and who believe it’s time to leave.

Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles. As Army captains who served in Baghdad and beyond, we’ve seen the corruption and the sectarian division. We understand what it’s like to be stretched too thin. And we know when it’s time to get out.

And that would be, according to the 12 former Army captains, now.

These “phony troops” just keep popping up, don’t they?