As the number of Americans servicemen killed in Iraq approaches 2,000 (fewer than the number of Americans killed on December 7, 1941, allied forces killed on June 6, 1944 or American civilians killed on September 11, 2001), the Left is preparing a celebration. They will call it a commemoration or an observance or some such thing, but it really is nothing more to them than a gift: an excuse to once again show their opposition to the war on terror.

How do we know this? The number 2,000 has no particular meaning, except that it is a nice round number and is a good marketing tool for them (sort of like their Y2K, their millennium). And Ma Sheehan will indulge her attention deficit disorder (that is, she suffers when she receives insufficient attention):

"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.

For some, it is a time for some to ask questions.

"I hope that this milestone marks the point when the American people realize the U.S. military is not going to stop the violence in Iraq, and they instead start demanding a political solution to this problem," Sean O'Neill, a U.S. Marine who served in Iraq, said in a statement.

If he's missed the two landmark elections in Iraq, which now appears to have a constitution as a result of this ongoing political solution, he can probably be excused because the MSM is choosing to ignore it.

But, in the end, the fervor with which the anti-war Left look forward to 2,000 reflects that their hatred of President Bush, and any use of armed force even to defeat an enemy that has sworn to destroy our way of life, is so all-consuming that it overpowers even any semblance of patriotism. In the end, Iraq is on a democratic course, and history will remember the bold action of the President who set about to remake the middle east, not the gnats who snipe at every opportunity.

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