Don't you know by now, everyone in this country is just a number to our government. Why would soldiers be any different.

One more adjective/noun combination that I can add to the list of identifiers assigned to this administration.

Bush wants the war to be over now? Then why doesn't he order the troops home?

I guess Tony Snow is qualified for his job; despite his protests of incompetence. He certainly has the ability to lie with a straight face.

If the point is that 2500 is just another number, not particularly more meaningful than 2499, I guess I'd concede. But the insensitivity of simply dismissing 2500 deaths by saying, "It's a number" without expressing real regret for each and every individual is loathsome.

Even more despicable is the COMPLETE lack of regard for the tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died during our intervention. Sure, some of them were in the military, or were otherwise engaged in deadly attacks on Americans, coalition forces or other Iraqis -- however, a large percentage undeniably had to be innocent civilians.

The exquisite term "collateral damage" is used on the rare occasions when we even discuss such deaths. How clean, how antiseptic, how inhuman that phrase is! I certainly don't think of anyone in MY family as "collateral", and I bet none of the Iraqi public does either.

It's one of life's big mysteries to me how easily we in the so-called Christian Western world dismiss the death of others, especially non-Christians. Who's the REAL non-Christian, hmmm? Hard to reconcile the dehumanization of those we've killed (or WANT to kill) with any sort of Christianity that *I* can recognize.

Snow is a cancer survivor. As such, he is just a statistic.

They can spin and posture to infinity and it won't cover up the fact that they never developed a feasible, comprehensive plan to invade and transform Iraq as evidenced by the "numbers".

These guys are idiots.

Tony Snow has been admiring Joe Stalin again. Stalin said that one death is a tragedy. A thousand deaths is a statistic.

Yea right, it happens to be 2500. 2500 too many. Caused by an illegal war ,the resposibilty of a war avoider and his sidekick who did not even don a National Guard uniform but steered with his baton twirling wife clear of the draft. And the abominable Snow-man at the white pronounces it as just anumber. How callous can this gang get?

It's a number. "Just" a number.

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and, here's the reason for it:

http://www.blgadd.com/The_Disgracer_in_Chief.jpg