[Dog]

Scum

[DaveMSmith]

Did CNN drop baloons and confetti in the newsroom?

These people are ghouls

[pt17]

I can imagine why CNN doesn't post stats on the 5,000 or so pedestrians that are killed per year doing battle with vehicles, can you?

[Blzbba]

I just went to cnn.com and didn't see this?

Or are you referring to TV?

[cwiz24]

Where's the Cristal when you need it, huh?

CNN should be ashamed of themselves for capitalizing on this. A round number is not news--it's gloating.

[Dogbert41]

Too bad it isn't the 1000th decapitated journalist.

[Bungarian]

They scream about the 1000 but no one should bring up the 3000 killed by terrorist. That would not be sensitive to the families?

[Sprite518]

These so called non bias Liberal scum bags are playing politics because they know that Kerry is in trouble. Does Anyone remember what CNN was saying how many deaths we would have in Iraq before the war. I believe the number was in the 10s of thousands.

[KevinDavis]

But 3000 civilians died in a single day and yet the 1000 us death in Iraq gets more news.. Sad real sad.

[EternalVigilance]

The care and concern for our men and women in uniform that is in this President's heart is abundantly evident every time you hear him talk about them.

He carries a heavy burden for every single one that is in the field, and for all the families of those who have lost loved ones.

If John Kerry wants to make this the point of his attack, George W. Bush will make him wish he hadn't.

[OldFriend]

It's not 1,000 combat deaths but that doesn't matter to those who would exploit the loss of any american for political gain.

[Publius6961]

For reasons too subtle to explain in a brief post, "touting" is definitely the wrong word here...

[Paloma_55]

Only 1000?

We have done exceptionally good. While it is very sad for those who have lost family, and loved ones, we have freed 24,000,000 people from a dictator, reduced the threat to our own nation, set up right next door to Syria and Iran, and only lost 1000 soldiers in the process.

To liberate Germany from Hitler took 4 years and hundreds of thousands of lives. To liberate Japan took 4 years and hundreds of thousands of lives. I expect we will have to lose more soldiers, sailors and marines to finish the job. That is a tough thing to accept. Its like accepting the fact that we lose cops as they protect our streets. And we lose firefighters. We should give them reverence for their sacrifice, but not stop having soldiers, cops, or firefighters.

I'm sure this can be spun as somehow "insensitive" or "uncaring", but I am extremely grateful to our Lord that only 1000 have died so far in this war to prevent a nuclear version of 9/11.

[chimera]

Not to minimize any of the sacrifices, but we've lost 1,000 taking out a brutal and despotic regime that was a threat to the stability of an entire, vital region of the world. The barbarians slaughtered 3,000 innocents on Sept. 11th to no purpose other than to satisfy their bloodlust. I can tell which of those is worse, but I doubt if the media can.

So we're 1/55th of the way to the total taken in the war that John Kerry brags about being in but turned around and stabbed his comrades in the back while many of them were still out in the field fighting and dying. I wonder why the media doesn't make as big a deal out of that? Oh, I forgot, it's expecting too much to think they'd be fair and objective...

[Publius6961]

If this excites the dorks at CNN that much, they would have an orgasm discussing Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Nanking...

[Lady Jag]

Dog, during the Korean war we lost 30,000 men in three years. Yes, it's too bad to lose one, but the difference is so significant that one must admit we're doing amazingly well.

[RichInOC]

Did they bring Jerry Lewis and Ed McMahon in to go "Tympani!" "Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah!"?

[socal_parrot]

Are the balloons dropping from their studio rafters?

[finnman69]

CNN celebrates. Disgusting!

[BonnieJ]

For those of us who lived through the Vietnam war, at any age at the time, recall the huge toll from that...finally hitting 58,000. Do you suppose they are hoping for that number to be surpassed? They do not care, even the Russian school tragedy is beyond their focus of true empathy.

[4MoreYearsOfBushGivesEnemyHell]

I am sorry to say, but at this rate, it will take 57 years to reach the levels of Vietnam.