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We don't know anything yet about the solider or sailor or marine who just became the 2,500th U.S. fatality in Iraq. At the White House today, press secretary Tony Snow didn't sound too interested in finding out.
Asked if the president had any "response or reaction" to the sad milestone, Snow said: "It's a number, and every time there's one of these 500 benchmarks people want something."
Snow said that the president "wants the war to be over now" and "feels very deeply the responsibility for sending men and women into harm's way and ... the pain that the families feel."
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
The author of "Fiasco" uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005.
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A journal dedicated to the study of such subjects as counterinsurgency, foreign internal defense, support and stability operations, peacemaking, and peacekeeping. Founded by ex-Marines.
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