Political humor of the day

Responding to a discussion on "Fox & Friends" in which one of the participants tried to minimize the significance of the 2000th death in Iraq by pointing out that, after all, 436 of those deaths were non-combat related*:

"Non-combat related? That means they're accidents. Forget 'em. Accidents don't count. And you know, if the peaceniks in the antiwar machine get their way and this war turns out to have been a big mistake, that just means every death was an accident, and therefore, nobody died. Keep that in perspective."

- Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report

*The idea that any of the American deaths are "non-combat related" is sheer nonsense. American troops wouldn't even be in Iraq if not for the invasion of Iraq, i.e., combat.