Can A Number Be Ironic?

Well, no but this is a coincidence. The UN is reporting that 3000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the month of June.

I don't want to make too big a deal of the obvious metaphor to September 11th, so I'll shut my trap. But remember: Come the midterm advertising craze of September and October, when Republicans are unabashedly inundating you with images of September 11th and eagles and pigtailed children picking daisies as a nuclear bomb falls from the sky, we are stuck in Iraq creating a national tragedy, not avenging or preventing one.

Over 3000 Iraqi Civilians Killed in June, U.N. Reports (NY Times)