Posted on 08/31/2010 8:53:33 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A series of bomb attacks have badly hit US troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past 48 hours.
The death toll among in the Nato-led coalition has reached 484 this year and is predicted to far surpass 2009’s total of 521.
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n two of the most deadly recent incidents, three Americans died in eastern Afghanistan on one bomb attack on Tuesday. Five died in a single bomb attack in the south on Monday.
Military spokesmen would not say if the bombs hit vehicles or foot patrols.
Homemade bombs using old shells or homemade explosives and hidden in roads, tracks, walls, streams and buildings have become the Taliban’s favoured weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Afghanistan will be Obama’s tar baby....he wanted it, he got it, he owns it and it will drag him down.
We have a Commander in Chief that doesn’t have any idea how to conduct a war. He imposes time tables independent of the mission and to the chagrin of the generals. As such, we should pull out of that hell hole and take a lesson from the Russians. Someone please tell me how we are winning there and how being over there is worth the blood of our young men.
That would mean killing them closer to home. Better to
kill them in A’stan or the Sandbox.
The Taliban and Al Quaeda are f’ing cowards. They come out at night like vermin, set IEDs and scurry back into their holes. They can’t fight mano a mano with a US, British or Canadian solider so they fall back on their cowardly but deadly ways. RIP brave ones. Condolences to your families.
I have read that the Coalition/Taliban ratio is in the order of between 10 and 50 to one.
Say nice things about George W. Bush?
My heart aches and my head spins over the evil and the hypocrisy of the current administration and the servile media.
It’s poor argument to label someone a troll for having a contrary opinion. Tell me how we are progressing over there and if you would give your kin to fight over there. I wouldn’t.
Having them get over here is a problem with immigration laws and lax borders...
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I have never understood why that wasn’t done immediately after 9/11. It was and still is so obviously the most effective way to prevent further Islamic terrorist attacks.
A note to Gen Petraeus; apparently the rules of engagement are woefully inadequate.
Man & mine our borders,not South Korea's.
My war was not pretty either.
The most under reported story of the year is that there have been more combat deaths in the 19 months of President Obama’s administration than in the 7 years, 4 months that President Bush was CinC of the Afghanistan War.
F_U_** dangit and Obama just addressed the troops said, not prayers and ....argh, prayers for those who died, for the familes and friend in which this TRAGEDY of islami terroist scum is directly responsible for thei reprehensible act...meanwhile the Big zer0 rests on his nobel laurels
RIP
this is off a UK paper, I heard FOX mention that the death rate is up but breifly but the other so caleld press have really said nothing about this and yet imagine if Bush was still in.
This would be all over the airwaves all day.
I frigging hate this biased media and so called press
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