Get a Grip

Reuters (Via Drudge): Iraq war foes ready for 2,000th military death.

Might as well read "Anti-Bush ready for insane fit."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son's death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.

"I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. and I'm going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I'm going to tie myself to the fence and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home," Sheehan said in a telephone interview last week as the milestone approached.

"And I'll probably get arrested, and when I get out, I'll go back and do the same thing," she said.

The death toll among U.S. military forces since the March 2003 invasion stood at 1,996 on Sunday.

The milestone's approach prompted plans for hundreds of other demonstrations across the United States, but for Sheehan, each military death in the Iraqi war has been a tragedy.

"To me, every single member since Number One has been tragic and needless and unnecessary," she said. "My son was somewhere around 615, and I've been working so hard for peace since my son was killed and now almost 1,400 more soldiers have been killed since Casey died."

Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004.

Beyond Sheehan's plans, a candlelight vigil is planned at the White House to mourn the 2,000-death milestone. Hundreds of other demonstrations are scheduled for the day after the milestone number is reached.

These people are insane. They discount and dishonor the service of all who have died for freedom's fight in Iraq.

Cindy Sheehan plans to tie herself to the White House fence and stay there until the troops are brought home.

I say, either leave her there as the circus spectacle she is, or commit her to a mental ward. She's lost it.

We should mourn for each of the 2,000 brave men (and the few women) who have died in service to our country, helping liberate the Iraqis from a murderous dictator and his evil regime.

Yet, we must keep the number of dead in context. Two-thousand dead is not that many at all, when one compares that number to previous wars.

In WWI, we lost 116,706. Even if one only considers the KIAs, World War I lasted 19 months, with an average of 2,816 KIAs per month.

In WWII, we lost 407,000. That averages to 6,639 KIAs a month.

We are no where near these numbers. We haven't even reached the average KIA for WWI.

Yet, the anti-Bush Left will say anything, trumpet any statistic, in order to bring the President down.

They really need to get a grip on reality.