We reached another unfortunate milestone today in Iraq, as the Pentagon announced that the number of U.S. military deaths has reached 2500. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was asked if the president had "any response or reaction." Snow responded:

"It's a number, and every time there's one of these 500 benchmarks people want something."

--The Carpetbagger Report

What would be happening if a Democrat had said something like this? Already, Fox News would have dispatched reporters to the hometown of casualty #2500 to elicit expressions of outrage that he or she had died defending our country but had been "reduced to a number." Top Republican congressional leaders would be demanding apologies, and a resignation. Bill O'Reilly and Hannity & Colmes would be putting together shows with the theme "Democrats: Disrespecting Our Troops Again?" Joe Klein would be hard at work on a column for Time about how the "Howard Dean wing" of the Democratic Party sees all the troops as numbers and can't even acknowledge the humanity of those who serve our country.

The resignation would be a done deal by Monday.