Military deaths in Iraq hit 2,500

Reuters, via Yahoo ^ | 15 JUNE 2006 | Omar al-Ibadi

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Reuters desperately trying to throw cold water on the President's recent successes.

[PurpleMan]

"Military deaths in Iraq hit 2,500"

What? Al-Reuters didn't have an exclamation point and a smiley face attached to the headline?

[martin_fierro]

Some perspective for rEUters: Total U.S. traffic deaths in 2005 reached 43,200.

[A Troop 1-14 Cav]

So what Al Ja-Reuters is actually saying is that in over three years of war, we have lost ONLY 2500? While every loss hurts, can anyone name for me another war in which we lost fewer in the same time period? I don't think the media understand when they trumpet 2500 dead, most people say, "In three years of war? That's low."

[VictoryGal]

Yech. Incoming drool storm from the MSM.

[newgeezer]

Total U.S. traffic deaths in 2005 reached 43,200.

Ya beat me to it!

[Huck]

And God bless each and every one of them.

[newgeezer]

Reuters desperately trying to throw cold water on the President's recent successes.

I wonder if maybe the President timed his visit to precede the inevitable announcement.

[maica]

The recent leftist convention in DC planned to march from their Hilton hotel venue to the White House to "commemorate" the 2500th death. Unfortunately their convention ended when the count was 2497. So they marched anyway!

They live to feed on death.

[pabianice]

Meanwhile, civilians saved in Iraq equals 27 million. Strange that Al JaReuters doesn't mention that.

[RexBeach]

Number of murder victims in the US in 2005 was 16,900.

Number of abortions in the US more than a million in 2005.

[edcoil]

If the military does not watch out, it might catch up to Detroit.

[pillut48]

Yup, it's definitely a 'culture of death' over there with the liberals!! Brace yourself for all the same old "It's all Bush's fault!", "Bush lied, innocents died", "Clinton lied, nobody died", "Bush should send his daughters to die!", "They died for oil!", yada yada yada garbage to roll out of the MSM for the next few days. And I'm sure Doonesbury will do a loving tribute to the troops for this number being so LOW, yeah, right.

[D-Chivas]

Time for Rooters and the Democrats to party.

Next stop: 3000

[Protagoras]

In other news, deaths in one battle on D-Day reached 5000 within a few hours.

[squarebarb]

I would have thought they would have had shots of Reurters journalists cheering and firing off pistols and doing that ululululu noise.

[daybreakcoming]

I wonder if maybe the President timed his visit to precede the inevitable announcement.

Hi - did you pick that line up from KOS or DU? Are you suggesting it had nothing to do with the result of Iraq FINALLY finishiing the formation of their new government and zark's death was the icing on the cake?

[squarebarb]

Reurters = Reuters.

Not that it matters.

[oyez]

Reuters only cares about the American GI:

1. When he dies.

2. When he screws up.

[Toby06]

'Military deaths in Iraq hit 2,500' further proving that Iraq is safer than Washington, D.C or Dearborn, MI.