Yes yes, we all know it's been coming, and now here it is. It doesn't really mean much in reality but it's an important psycho-ma-logical thinger.
So, more importantly will this do anything to the 'bring 'em home movement?'
Slight Karma thing that the 2000th death was in Texas...WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military death toll in the 2 1/2 year Iraq war reached the milestone of 2,000 on Tuesday with the announcement by the Pentagon of a U.S. soldier who died at a hospital in Texas over the weekend.
The Pentagon said Staff Sgt. George Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, died at Brooke Army Medical Centre in San Antonio, Texas, last Saturday of injuries sustained on October 17 in Samarra, Iraq, when a roadside bomb planted by insurgents detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
In the Iraq war, which began in March 2003, more than 15,000 U.S. troops also have been wounded in action.
So, more importantly will this do anything to the 'bring 'em home movement?'