On the 2,000th death in Iraq.

This is just great writing by Newsguy over at The Skeptical Observer. So in the grand tradition of bloggers everywhere, I'm gonna steal part of it.

Cindy Sheehan was co-hosting with Randi Rhodes on her Air America show this evening. Cindy said as of today, 1,992 American troops have been killed in Iraq. If that is accurate, there are seven American military personnel who are alive right now, but who will die very soon to bring the count to an even 2000.

The seven are probably young, no doubt with dreams of going home. They have people at home who love them. A wife. A girlfriend. Parents. Brothers. Sisters. But seven families who are looking forward with fear and hope will soon be at a graveside with some captain in dress uniform handing them a flag neatly folded into a triangle. Those seven are alive right this minute. They are having chow or suiting up to go out on patrol or on a dusty road in Baghdad or in some godforsaken Iraqi village on the Syrian border. Or they are just coming off patrol and sinking into a bunk with a book or watching CNN or tapping out an email to someone back home. Every one of those troopers is looking forward to tomorrow. And the day after that.

There's more, go over and read the rest.