Let The Media Celebration Begin

It’s just a matter of time.

It could be today, or it could happen tomorrow.

They know that it’s coming, and they can barely wait. They wonder why it won’t hurry up?

What I’m talking about is the death of the 2000th member of the US armed forces in the Iraq war.

The media and the Cindy Sheehan branch of the US hating commie-pinko-pig war activists have been making their preparations for months now.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son's death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.

"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 and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home," Sheehan said in a telephone interview last week as the milestone approached.

"And I'll probably get arrested, and when I get out, I'll go back and do the same thing," she said.

The death toll among U.S. military forces since the March 2003 invasion stood at 1,996 on Sunday.

What makes me sick is that you can almost see the newsroom editors and the wild eyed idiot reporters rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the event. To them, two thousand deaths is nothing more than a nice round figure—something to be celebrated and trumpeted as they smear the number across the front page headlines and rub the number into the mental wounds of the president and the patriotic, non-leftist members of the American population.

What makes number 2000 so special?

Why not 1977 or 1989?

Why is the loss of number two thousand any less painful for the individual soldier that has died, or the family and friends that have to endure and mourn his or her death?

Because it’s not the loss of the human life that is important to the media. It’s not the death of a brother or sister or husband or uncle or grandfather that is their concern.

Once again the media will use the spilled red blood of another American soldier as their own weapon of mass destruction—designed to undermine the US war effort in general and to target the Bush administration with their claims of “wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.”

Same song, different verse.

Do we as a people have the stomach to continue the fight in the face of the constant media onslaught and the blitherings of the the Cindy Sheehans, Ted Kennedys, and Barbara Boxers?

I think so.

I sure hope so. We need to remember some important things here in this situation that really matter and are rarely mentioned.

First, the US employs an all volunteer military.

No draftees.

The people fighting today on our behalf CHOOSE to join the military, and the majority of them WANT to be where they are, in harms way, to do a very important job on behalf of the American people and the citizens of the free world.

Next, not to slight the deaths of the two thousand service members, but in reality the losses are miniscule when compared to previous conflicts.

Revolutionary War...............4,435 dead...........6,188 wounded
War of 1812.........................2,260 dead...........4,505 wounded
Mexican War......................13,283 dead...........4,152 wounded
Civil War..........................558,052 dead........412,175 wounded
Spanish American War.........2,446 dead...........1,662 wounded
WWI.................................116,708 dead.......204,002 wounded
WWII...............................407,316 dead.......670,846 wounded
Korean War.........................33,651 dead.......103,284 wounded
Vietnam War.......................58,168 dead........153,303 wounded
1st Gulf War.............................293 dead..............467 wounded

I'm sorry, but I just can't understand how anyone can celebrate the death of a soldier.

I'm fairly certain that all of the men and women represented on my list are less than happy with how some people choose to use the freedoms paid for with their lives and limbs.