It’s started. MoveOn.org is using the death of the 2000th American soldier in Iraq in a pitch to raise money for a TV ad:
“Today, we received grim news: 2000 American soldiers have now died in Iraq. Their caskets have been hidden from view, and the news of their deaths has receded to the back pages. But the men and women who died in recent days were no less brave or less honorable than those who died in the first days of the war. It’s time for us to honor them—to remind the public that they’re dying every day in the quagmire of Iraq—and ask, “How many more?” Can you help put this ad on the air?”
MoveOn is honoring the dead by raising money to tell the living that the dead died in vain.
2,000 U. S. Military Deaths in Iraq
As you’ve surely heard by now, there have now been more than 2,000 U. S. military deaths in Iraq:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Some Iraqis sympathized with U.S. forces on Wednesday after hearing the American death toll in the Iraq war had reached 2,000…