Posted on 10/25/2005 12:46:40 PM PDT by StoneColdTaxHater
Edited on 10/25/2005 12:56:00 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military has announced the death of an American soldier who was wounded in Iraq.
That brings the U.S. death toll to 2,000.
The toll compiled by The Associated Press reached 2,000 with the death of an Army sergeant who was wounded by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. He died last weekend in Texas.
Staff Sgt. George Alexander of Killeen, Texas, was wounded last week in Samarra, north of Baghdad. He was based at Fort Benning in Georgia.
Earlier Tuesday, President George W. Bush warned the nation to brace for an even higher casualty count, saying there's more work ahead in Iraq before the job is done.
But the first U.S. service member to die in the Iraq war is just as important as the 2,000th. A U.S. military spokesman said that is why the military does not consider the death of the 2,000th American in Iraq a milestone.
And the chief spokesman for the American-led coalition force is asking reporters not to treat it as a milestone, either.
The military earlier Tuesday announced the deaths of two Marines killed last week in Baghdad. Their deaths raised to 1,999 the number of members of the U.S. military killed since the Iraq war started in March of 2003. This latest death makes the toll hit 2,000.
But in an e-mail, military spokesman Steve Boylan spoke of what he calls the "daily milestones" in the war against terrorism, which he said are rarely covered. Those include the struggles faced by families of soldiers serving for a year or more. and the Iraqis who've fought along with U.S. forces, making themselves daily targets for militant attacks.
As for the 2,000 death, Boylan calls that an "artificial mark on the wall."
Let the (media) celebration begin!
14,000 gays a year here die of self inflicted AIDS here in America and I don't see the LIEbs telling Dem to PULL OUT!
Sick is right.
Prayers for all of those brave souls who saw something important that was bigger than themselves. May they be remembered for their sacrifice forever. May God give strength to their families.
I HATE them too. They just had a moment of silence in the Senate. They make me sick.
Meanwhile 15,000+ people have been murdered in the US in the same time frame.
You said my thoughts very well.
The Left and the Democrats are like a broken record. Ashamed to vote their real beliefs they voted to authorize the use of force then hoped the war would go bad so they could get back into power. Moral Relativists the whole lot of them. That Dean would make such a joyful noise at the Deaths of our Troops is an indicator of the fact they are out of ideas. Al Franken is running around parrotting like an idiot "Execute Bush, Rove, Chenney etc". As if he is funny. What a pathetic Loser he has become. And he was a Comedian?
Matt Lauer, David Letterman should be ashamed of their behaviors and refusal to challenge Franken on his "Hate Speech". The Democrats are unfit to hold major office anymore. It is really sad as we need a vigorous opposition party to hold the party in power accountable. And Bush is spending money like a Liberal who has been hitting a bottle Of Jack Daniels.
If the American people had been told a half million guys would die in WW 2 would they have lost their will and say we shouldn't have fought Hitler and the Japanese??
Don't turn on C-Span 2 if you do not want to be even more disgusted than you already are. The Senatorial posturing is to puke over.
Hate is a strong word, however, I think not strong enough in this case.
Amen.
I doubt it, our parents were not a bunch of spoiled jerks. It's the boomers and their kids that populate the anti-America bunch.
Not to mention, not all 2000 were killed in combat. I believe 300-400 of those cited in this 2000 figure died of illness or from accidents. Pointing that out doesn't diminish the tragedy of their deaths. This is merely to point out that this 2000 number isn't exactly what it purports to be.
This ghoulish and obsessive body count mongering by the America hating MSM is about nothing more than turning Americans against a liberation effort in Iraq that by any truthful reporting of the news appears to be more and more successful than the chattering class is willing to acknowledge, not the least of which is the ratifying of the constitution, the first democratically approved constitution in the entire Middle East. The final vote tally for the constitutional referendum being released today will totally be drowned out by the leftist media's howling over this 2000 number. What a damned shame we no longer have a free media in the US.
Exactly. And while the loss of each one of these American heroes is devastating and heartbreaking for their friends and families, I wonder how many American soldiers were killed in the first few hours of D-Day?
ROFL
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