We’ve now lost 2000 men and women in Iraq. CNN reports…

Among the latest casualties, an American soldier was killed Saturday by a roadside bomb, and a roadside blast killed two Marines in combat Friday near Amariya in the western Anbar province, according to the U.S. military.

As perhaps the only professional sex advice columnist in America who supported the invasion, I feel awful about this. As I’ve said before, no one is angrier with George W. Bush for his miserably incompetent prosecution of this war than liberals who alienated their friends and families by supporting the removal of Saddam Hussein. Bush’s incompetence has made the war longer, bloodier, and deadlier than it needed to be. One disappointed liberal hawk, the New Yorker’s George Packer, has a new book out, The Assassin’s Gate.