Posted on 01/09/2014 3:47:35 PM PST by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - Seventy-four percent of the U.S. military personnel who have given their lives serving in the Afghan War died after Feb. 17, 2009, when President Barack Obama announced his first increase in the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, according to CNSNews.com’s database of U.S. casualties in the war.
In the more than twelve years that have passed since U.S. troops first entered Afghanistan with the aim of removing al Qaeda from its sanctuary there, 2,162 U.S. service personnel have given their lives in and around Afghanistan in support of U.S. military activities in that country.
1,593 of those 2,162 U.S. casualties—or 73.7 percent—have occurred since Feb. 17, 2009, when Obama announced the first of his multiple increases in U.S. military personnel deployed to Afghanistan.
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Bump.
BullShite!!! It wasn't the surge (which conveniently allows the reader to associate with Bush style tactics). More troops are better not worse.
The causalities increased because the enemy knew Barack Hussein Obama was President. In other words 3/4 of the causalities have occurred on Obama's watch. He owns it.
I believe that is increasingly mutual by Americans - legit ones.
the Rules of Engagement were responsible for the majority of deaths.
Plus change in tactics whereby we, for the most part, took on a defensive stance defending cities and areas rather than an aggressive, no holds barred, attack mode.
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What casualties? The murder rate in Chicago?
How wonderful for the family and for you. Thanks for sharing.
Yes.....
While every death in combat is valued by the nation, the death in Afghanistan are minimal by the standards of other war or for that matter specific battles.
The number of murders in Chicago exceeds the recent war deaths and is a black mark, severe black mark, on the Leftist body.
“The number of murders in Chicago exceeds the recent war deaths...”
I’m not sure how you are figuring that. The article says 2,162 deaths in Afghanistan, while there were 1,366 homicides in Chicago since 2011, when Emmanuel was elected, and that’s including 4 1/2 months when he wasn’t mayor.
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