“It’s a number.” Saying the Names of the 2500

Jun 16th, 2006 | By Ara | Category: War in Iraq

The other day, White House spokesperson Tony Snow responded to reporters’ questions about reaching the recent milestone of 2500 US military killed in Iraq by saying this: “It’s a number. And every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks, people want something.”

Well, yeah, people do want something. They want to know if all of this has been worth it. And the answer, increasingly, seems to be no, it wasn’t worth it.

Here are the names of those 2500 servicemen who died in Iraq.