2,000: A bogus number, a bitter cause

Michelle Malkin wrote in Townhall The anti-war Left couldn't wait for the death of the 2,000th soldier in Iraq. Peace activists have been gearing up for protests, vigils, and other events this week to mark the completely bogus milestone. Why 2,000? Was the 2nd or 555th or 1,678th death not as worth mourning as any other death with nice round numbers?

Every death is as meaningful as every other death, and I think all of the military that have lost their lives in Iraq and elsewhere. 2,000 is lower than the deaths in any other war, with the exception of Gulf War I, and in order to achieve the 2,000 number they had to include deaths due to accidents.

But what did those 2,000 lives buy? We have not had any more buildings fall since 9/11. Our military is confronting the Islamoterrists in Baghdad and Basrah rahter than Broken Arrow, Boston, or Beumont; in Mosul rather than Muskogee, Memphis, or Mesquite; in Karkuk and Karbala rather than Ketchum, Kansas City, or Kilgore; in Tall Afar and Tikrit rather than Tahlequah, Texas City, or Texarkana.

Cindy Sheehan barely contained her macabre lust for the spotlight in preparation for the artificially constructed, media-hyped occasion. "I'm going to go to Washington, D.C., and I'm going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I'm going to tie myself to the fence

I hope they leave her tied to the fence, and perhaps even add handcuffs, rather than arresting her.

and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home," Sheehan told a reporter last week as the death count neared her lottery number pick.