How Many U.S. Soldiers Died in Afghanistan? - News-weak

Newsweek ^ | 8-16-2021 | Samantha Lock

[KeyLargo]

The U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan has been America's longest war. After two decades and the loss of tens of thousands of lives, many may view its legacy as nothing more than a foreign policy embarrassment.

The U.S. first entered the conflict under then-president George W. Bush in 2001, just weeks after the Al-Qaeda September 11 attacks that prompted the "War on Terror".

Almost 20 years and several administrations later, the goal to pacify Afghanistan and build a democratic and

civil society is still not in sight. On Sunday, August 15, militants poured into the capital, Kabul, as President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and the government effectively collapsed. Taliban rule, it seems, is back.

Since the start of U.S. military operations through to April this year, 2,448 American service members have been killed in Afghanistan, according to data from Linda Bilmes of Harvard University's Kennedy School and the Brown University Costs of War project, as reported by the Associated Press. An additional 3,846 U.S. contractors also lost their lives.

The U.S. Department of Defense Casualty Status report records - as of August 9 this year - a similar number of deaths among American service members at 2,218, but only includes casualties that occurred in Afghanistan between October 7, 2001, and December 31, 2014.

Because between 2003 and 2011 the United States fought the Afghanistan and Iraq wars simultaneously, and many American troops served tours in both wars, some figures as noted by AP cover both post-9/11 U.S. wars.

More than 20,000 soldiers were wounded from the conflict, many of whom now live with permanent disabilities, according to the U.S. Department of Defense Casualty Status report.

[KeyLargo]

Add 13 service members to the total from August 26th.

No Empathy... Joe Checks Watch at Service for Dead Soldiers

https://rumble.com/vlv5m0-no-empathy...-joe-checks-watch-at-service-for-dead-soldiers.html

[SkyDancer]

They were killed; dying implies they were sick or something.

[qaz123]

Over 2400

[KeyLargo]

Yep,

News-weak

[Mariner]

They should include all the members who served there, then killed themselves once they returned home.

[Tennessee Nana]

Well GI Joe murdered 13 of them...

[Pollard]

Joe Biden Admin Killed Us

Marine Corps Staff Sgt Darin T Hoover 31
of Salt Lake City Utah

Army Staff Sgt Ryan C Knauss 23
of Corryton Tennessee

Marine Corps Sgt Nicole L Gee 23
of Sacramento California

Marine Corps Sgt Johanny Rosariopichardo 25
of Lawrence Massachusetts

Marine Corps Cpl Daegan W Page 23
of Omaha Nebraska

Marine Corps Cpl Hunter Lopez 22
of Indio California

Marine Corps Cpl Humberto A Sanchez 22
of Logansport Indiana

Marine Corps Lance Cpl Kareem M Nikoui 20
of Norco California

Marine Corps Lance Cpl Dylan R Merola 20
of Rancho Cucamonga California

Marine Corps Lance Cpl Rylee J McCollum 20
of Jackson Wyoming

Marine Corps Lance Cpl Jared M Schmitz 20
of St Charles Missouri

Marine Corps Lance Cpl David L Espinoza 20
of Rio Bravo Texas

Navy Hospitalman Maxton W Soviak 22
of Berlin Heights Ohio

[M Kehoe]

RIP.

5.56mm

[SES1066]

I am totally confident that not one single FReeper will be surprised by the following;

Note the Cover of this eMagazine (Cover Date of 3 September 2021) and whose picture is missing. Afghanistan does get a cover mention but there is NO Biden picture! Now if this had happened with Trump as President, what do you suppose the cover would be? Same for The Economist Magazine and I am sure that the usual suspect Fellow Travelers will follow suit!

No surprise but just an affirmation of the LEFT/Biden Bias in our 'Free Press'!

[Tallguy]

Pet-peeve: publications using the word ‘injured’ where they used to use ‘wounded’.

[Paladin2]

Well, we sure seemed to have kept Jihad in the US tamped down for the last ~20 years.

[SkyDancer]

Right - and also using the word “wounded” like in a car accident where they should be using “injured” -

[KeyLargo]

They Openly Mock Us Now: Taliban Hangs “Traitor” by the Throat From US Helicopter in Kandahar Left Behind by Joe Biden (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published August 30, 2021 at 12:59pm
3402 Comments
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/openly-mock-us-now-taliban-hangs-traitor-throat-us-helicopter-kandahar-left-behind-joe-biden-video/

[MHT]

2446

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Sammantha Lock is trying to “fudge” the death figures by including “tens of thousands” of deaths as though they all wee American service people and not other forces/people.

Typical leftist disinformation/lying tactic that Newsweek specializes in.

Damn this bitch!

[KeyLargo]

In Chicago all of the media in the pocket of the mayor, there report all of the hundreds shot monthly as - “Injured” and those murdered as “died”.