Now the number is a selling point:

After years of avoiding talk of the number of casualties in Iraq, Bush says this on Independence Day: (To a military audience at Fort Bragg)

I'm going to make you this promise: I'm not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done.

posted by Quiddity at 7/04/2006 11:03:00 AM