[BilLies]

I said it on another thread but repeat it:

Since Obama took over the management of the Afghan War, 37 months ago, 1,836 Coalition troops have been killed. During the 87 months under the Bush Administration, 1,069 military were killed.
During the election campaign Obama was preaching that we weren’t focusing enough effort on the Afghan War and he bragged that he would.
I think he NOW is trying to get out of this war before his Administration is responsible for the deaths of TWICE as many Coalition troops in Afghanistan as was Bush. At the historic monthly average of fifty Coalition troop deaths under Obama, he has six months to get out, longer if he lessen their combat exposure.
The election day is eight months away.

[Tallguy]

When Bush was running the deal Afghanistan was being held-down by far fewer troops. The mission was basically to keep some mobile forces in the Kabul region, monitor the hinterland for signs of Al Qaeda/Taliban, and kick their behinds if they showed themselves. Economy of Force.

Obama comes in & it's time to be 'friends' with Afghanistan. Do the 'Nation Building' thing. I don't know about you, but I think Bush had the right idea.

[Polyxene]

“Since Obama took over the management of the Afghan War, 37 months ago, 1,836 Coalition troops have been killed. During the 87 months under the Bush Administration, 1,069 military were killed.”

AND where oh where are Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, et al. protesting all of these deaths as they did when Bush was President?????? ))))crickets((((

[Michael Barnes]

Remember the "nightly death toll" counts? I sure as hell do. I recall a morbid graphic on the evening alphabet news with 1000 in red ominous font. Every single night we were reminded of our troops sacrifices but more over, the left wing media trouncing President Bush as though he personally killed a 1000 troops.