4,000

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Just another day: "As many as 20 mortar shells were fired Sunday at the heavily fortified Green Zone, one of the fiercest and most sustained attacks on the area in the last year... [The shelling] ushered in a day of violence around the country that claimed the lives of at least 58 lraqis and four American soldiers."

Just another milestone: "A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000."

What a war.