Xmas Gift from the Pathocrats

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Xmas Gift from the Pathocrats

With a macabre sense of timing, I noted under my Christmas tree this present from the Pathocracy:

U.S. toll in Iraq surpasses that of 9/11
12/26/06 08:45
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer

[…]
The U.S. military on Tuesday announced the deaths of six more American soldiers, pushing the U.S. military death toll since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,978 — five more than the number killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

The milestone came with military announcement that three soldiers had been killed Monday. Three more service members were killed Tuesday in roadside bombings near Baghdad, the military said.
[...]

Of course the figure 2,978 is much too low; but the fact that a mainstream reporter would even make the comparison is at least a sign of some brain cells still functioning. Such things at the solstice, the darkest time of the solar year, are always welcome, even if the respite they provide is only a temporary one.