So, about the wedding party: Do you remember an earlier attack at Iraq's border with Syria? Do you remember how that turned out? Here's the Washington Post story from last June:

...U.S. officials backed away from their initial assessments of whether the attack early Thursday near the village of Dhib killed top officials in the former Iraqi government, saying they had picked up no indications since the attack that Saddam Hussein or his sons, Uday and Qusay, had been in the convoy....

Dhib, about 70 miles southwest of Qaim, is one of a handful of villages that dot Iraq's western desert...

It sits just five miles from Syria, a border sufficiently porous for lucrative livestock smuggling that has permitted Dhib's residents to buy satellite dishes, generators, Toyota and Nissan pickups and about five satellite phones to facilitate their trade.

Residents said that the village was abuzz with that trade last Wednesday....

Hamad said he recalled "continuous firing," targeting what the villagers said were four trucks used to transport livestock about five miles from the village, along the Syrian border....

...At about 1:30 a.m., as the four trucks burned, the first of about five missiles struck Hamad's brick house, he said. Although everyone was sleeping outside, debris killed his sister-in-law, 20-year-old Hakima Khalil, and her daughter, Maha. ...

Yup -- the military was trying to kill Saddam and his sons and instead was attacking sheep smugglers.

Notice where the village is -- 70 miles southwest of Qaim. The wounded in that incident were taken to a hospital in Qaim.

According to this story from today's L.A. Times about the attack on the wedding party, the wounded were taken to a hospital in Qaim.

So it's the same region. Now, maybe the intel has improved in the past year, but the U.S. track record there doesn't seem very good.