Results for "grim milestone"

Woo-hoo! Feel the Hope and Change:
Nine months into the fiscal year, the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time.
The imbalance is intensifying fears about higher interest rates and inflation, and already pressuring the value of the dollar. There’s also concern about trying to reverse the deficit — by reducing government spending or [...]

Top story of 2007.

Approaching 10,000.

“Thank you for peace.”

Here’s the Drudge-hyped headline of a morale-undermining NYTimes article just in time for the Memorial Day holiday:

Doubts Grow as G.I.’s in Iraq Find Allies in Enemy Ranks

NYTimes reporter Michael Kamber reports from Baghdad on a story that’s not news–militia infiltration of some of the Iraq security forces being trained by American troops (we noted the [...]

Since these stories don’t fit into the “grim milestone”/”if it bleeds, it leads” pre-sets, you won’t read about them on the front page. It’s the kind of cooperation we learned about on our short embed trip last week. It’s progress. It’s happening. In small steps. But forward progress, nonetheless.
First story:
Tip leads to hostage release, weapons [...]

The digs at FOB Justice
My HotAir.com colleague Bryan Preston and I are back from Iraq. Thanks to Allah and Ian for holding down the fort at HA and thanks much to guest-bloggers Mary Katharine Ham, See-Dubya, and the Big Lizards for filling in here during my absence. Be sure to bookmark their blogs.
Our first [...]

On Wednesday, the NYTimes published a 4,625-word opus on the “2,000 dead” milestone–a “grim mark,” read the headline–on page A2. Among those profiled were Marines from the First Battalion of the Fifth Marine Regiment, including Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr. Here’s an excerpt from the Times’ passage about Cpl. Starr:
Another member of the 1/5, Cpl. Jeffrey [...]

***10/26 update: My new column, “2,000: A bogus number, a bitter cause,” is here***

Read what Lt. Col. Steve Boylan has to say. Spread the word.
More at LGF and Ipso Facto Cartoon Blog.
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AP’s latest “grim milestone” dispatch.

So, Hurricane Cindy is going to blow back into Washington as soon as the 2,000th soldier in Iraq dies:
Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son’s death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths [...]