"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
Three more U.S. service members died in fighting this week, the military said Friday, raising to 54 the number of Americans killed in Iraq in December -- nearly half of them in Al-Anbar, the volatile province west of Baghdad.
The month is shaping up to be one of the deadliest for Americans since the war started, especially for those trying to tame the Sunni-led insurgency in Al-Anbar.
At least 25 of the U.S. troops killed this month -- most Marines -- died in the vast stretch of desert that extends from the capital to the borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Three U.S. aircraft also went down in a span of two weeks, starting with the crash of a fighter jet on Nov. 27.