With the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq
apparently reaching the 1,000 mark, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
met the symbolic figure head-on Tuesday at the Pentagon. He said the
deaths were part of the cost of going on the offensive against
terrorism and related the count to attacks ranging from recent Russian
school deaths to the Sept. 11 strikes three years ago. [more ] The War in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism and it has nothing to do with school deaths in Russia.
New York Times publishes pictures of the first 1000 U.S. troops killed in Iraq [more ]