Yet another milestone: "U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 1,500"

As reported on CNN this morning,

The U.S. death toll in Iraq hit the 1,500 mark this week with the death of a soldier killed in action south of Baghdad, the military announced Thursday...

More than 1,300 of the deaths have occurred since President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1, 2003."

Oh, yeah, that whole "Mission Accomplished" thing. Whatever happened with that? Oh. Right.

BONUS SNARK: Not surprisingly, CNN has bought into the historical revisionism of Bush supposedly having declared an end to "major" combat operations way back on May 1, 2003. Billmon has the real story on that.