Hey everyone! Just the week after the Iraq War’s very special 5th birthday, we hit 4,000 dead American soldiers! Dana Perino did some of her special brand of lying this morning to say that Bush was ‘grieved’ by the news, but that he of course grieves for every single casualty from the first to the most recent. And he promises to take care of the families of the deceased (unless they want money or health benefits, then no dice!) He would have made a speech himself, except he overdid it on the coke last night and needed a timeout to sleep it off.

And, of course, I imagine the wingnuts will be more outraged by the protesters disrupting Easter service than by 4,000 war dead. It is already a shot-of-whiskey-on-Monday- morning kind of a week.

I realize ’sad panda’ is too overused and cliche at this point, but I really couldn’t think of a way to convey this without my utter outrage and grief actually coming through and making this too earnest for all of you.

Bush “grieved’ by 4,000 deaths in Iraq [The Swamp]