Grim Milestone Watch
Charles Johnson
Sun Dec 31, 2006 at 12:41 pm PST • Views: 179
The deaths of US soldiers reach another “grim milestone” in the ghoulish numerology of the Associated Press: U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 3,000.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The death of a Texas soldier, announced Sunday by the Pentagon, raised the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began, according to an Associated Press count.
The grim milestone was crossed on the final day of 2006 and at the end of the deadliest month for the American military in Iraq in the past 12 months. At least 111 U.S. service members were reported to have died in December.
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