Completely Unnecessary

This milestone is underscored by the countless (or merely uncounted) dead and displaced Iraqis.

I was temped to add ‘of course’ to the sentence above, but the media rarely reports on those larger numbers, which number now in the millions.

I hope it is of some comfort to President George Bush that the four soldiers that pushed us to the 4000 mark died on Easter.

I doubt much that it’s of comfort to anyone else.

A.P.’s Death Toll for Iraq War Reaches 4,000 [NYT-AP]

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