I usually stay out of political threads as they often turn nasty,
but, your missing the point GUEST,
Ebbie, or anyone else, is not celebrating the figures, they are making the point that over 1,000 young american men are dead.
Yet, the fighting continues, and as stated they have found no weapons of mas distruction, and UK politicians have admitted that they probably never will.
[We in the UK were told, that Saddam could launch an attack on us within 45 minutes].

A figure I find sad is the 20,000 injured, [my own father was sent home injured from the Aden conflict whilst serving in the Brittish Army, he never recovered from this, and was disabled for the rest of his life].