2500 dead troops - It's a number

... from the official White House website, press conference on occasion of 2500 soldiers being sacrificed on the altar of the Bush Crime Dynasty:

"Q Tony, American deaths in Iraq have reached 2,500. Is there any response or reaction from the President on that?

MR. SNOW: It's a number, and every time there's one of these 500 benchmarks people want something."

When do you pull out? ever?
... how would our military contractors ever make their billions?
... with the biggest embassy ever built in the world being built in Iraq?
... with 14 permanent bases being built on the border of Iraq?

Where does the flaggy song-y Bible thumping power-minority draw it's line, exactly?
"It's a number."

My benchmark was ZERO, g'damn you Tony Snow, but I'm a know-it-all midwestern housewife.
Go rent the video, "Fog of War" tonight, Tony.
MacNamara's agony was caused by his allegiance to the illusion of victory.
Declare victory and quickly, leave.

"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity."
-- Gandhi