“Grim Milestone” Watch 9
Charles Johnson
Wed Oct 26, 2005 at 12:46 pm PDT • Views: 212
At the blog of al-Guardian: Grim milestones. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
In the words of Donald Rumsfeld and Pentagon officials, the US military doesn’t “do body counts” of enemy fighters and civilians; the one they do, that of the US service men and women killed in Iraq, reached 2,000 yesterday with the announcement of the death of Staff Sergeant George Alexander, 34, in a Texas hospital from injuries sustained in a roadside bombing.
The 2,000th fatality is, of course, no more tragic than was the 1,999th for the victims and their families, fellow soldiers and friends; it does, however, represent a grim numerical milestone.
Some of the pro-war bloggers anticipated this in advance, labelling, as did Little Green Footballs, anti-war groups “ghouls” for planning public events (it called them “parties”) to commemorate the dead. Readers used the comments section to attack the “depravity” of the participants.
If the shoe fits…
Frank says: