Is 2,002 also a "false milestone"?

[elehhhhna]

...because we hit it.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[rzemanfl]

1. Just a mark on a wall set by people with an agenda to undermine

our glorious country. Why do you hate freedom?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Unless you ignore Iraq entirely, as the freepers do,

you are playing into the hands of "the terrorists", right?

[central scrutinizer]

3. a function of base ten numeration system

We tend to think that numbers with lots of zeroes are somehow more important since we use powers of ten for our system of numeration. This is why we watch our odometers roll over at 100,000 - unless you drive off the road because you were watching your odometer instead of the road, that "milestone" means nothing. We will soon hit a big milestone: 100,000,000,000 dead in Iraq. But that is just binary for the decimal number 2048.

[rzemanfl]

4. The army will start counting its dead and wounded with Roman

numerals, that will put a stop to that!

[Zynx]

5. 2002, the year Democrats showed no spine and doomed 2,002 men

and women to their deaths. The IWR vote is one of the biggest black marks on the party since the pre-Civil War era.

[elehhhhna]

6. correction; 2004 now.