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The number of american war dead is now 2,500. At the White House, Tony Blow remarked, "It's a number." He added that Bush "feels very deeply the pain that the families feel." Yes, I'm sure. Glad you can count, asswipe.

In the meantime, the Senate has rejected setting any time tables for a pull out of US troops.

In the house, republicans engineered a daylong debate in the House, where Republicans defended the war as key to winning the global struggle against terrorism while Democrats excoriated President Bush and his policies.

Chief republican house asshat Denny Hastert said, "We must stand firm in our commitment to fight terrorism and the evil it inflicts throughout the world. We must renew our resolve that the actions of evildoers will not dictate American policy."

That's funny, since the republican party is in charge, doesn't that mean that the evil doers are already dictating American policy?

It's my guess that the woman in the photograph would disagree with fat Denny. The bloodstained clothing she holds belonged to her late husband. American soldiers killed killed him on June 12th. At least 3,800 iraqi civilians have died so far this year in war-related violence.

Can someone tell me how making everyone on the fucking planet hate our guts is going to make me safer? I thought not.