I wonder if Tony Snow would call this one "a number" too...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

[Union Yes]

1. Bring them home yesterday. MARGINALIZE those who advocate for war. knr

:cry:

[Barack_America]

2. Well, Tony Snow is dead so, no, I don't believe he'll be commenting.

But, yes, this tragedy needs to end for everybody involved.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. And that's why I asked the question in the past tense..."would" he...

...but for me, that statement is his enduring legacy. I'll never be able to hear his name or see a milestone fatality count without associating the two.

Snow on 2,500 U.S. Fatalities In Iraq: ‘It’s A Number’



By Think Progress on Jun 15th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was asked this afternoon if President Bush had any reaction to the death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq reaching 2,500. Snow responded: “It’s a number.”

Snow added that the President “feels very deeply the responsibility for sending men and women into harm’s way, and feels very deeply the pain that the families feel.” To illustrate, Snow reminded the press corps of when “you had this crowd of servicemen and women who were cheering loudly for the President, and he got choked up.”

Transcript:

Q Tony, American deaths in Iraq have reached 2,500. Is there any response or reaction from the President on that?

MR. SNOW: It’s a number, and every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks people want something. The President would like the war to be over now. Everybody would like the war to be over now. And the one thing that we saw in Iraq this week is further testimony to the quality of the men and the women who are doing that, and the dedication and determination to try to ensure that the people of Iraq really do live in a free, effective democracy of their own creation and design.

Any President who goes through a time of war feels very deeply the responsibility for sending men and women into harm’s way, and feels very deeply the pain that the families feel. And this President is no different. You’ve seen it many times. You saw it, you saw it when he was in that ballroom, Terry, and you had this crowd of servicemen and women who were cheering loudly for the President, and he got choked up. So it’s always a sad benchmark, and one of the things the President has said is that these people will not die in vain.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/15/its-a-number/