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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Obama’s Watch: 39 Months, 69 Percent of Afghan War Casualties

Although President Obama has only served 39 months in office, 69 percent of the U.S. military fatalities in the more then 10-year-old war in Afghanistan have occurred on his watch.

Through April 30, the Defense Department had reported that 1,844 U.S. military personnel have been killed in and around Afghanistan while deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom, which was launched in October 2001 after al Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon.

According to CNSNews.com’s comprehensive database on Afghan war casualties, at least 1,275 of the 1,844 U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom have been killed since Jan. 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can thank Bush for getting us into this mess.

Anonymous said...

Afghanistan is the war we should be fighting..(although it is time to come home)..Go ask Bush why we went to Iraq?

Anonymous said...

1206, we are fighting a religion, not a country with borders. Until this is figured out, we are playing with our a$$es over there and pi$$ing everybody off along the way, causing even MORE hatred toward the good ole' USA.

Anonymous said...

The Afghans ability to secure their own country was never an issue before.They were in chaos before the US came.Retalliation for 9/11 somehow turned into enabling the Afghan police and army to secure their country.What is the connection between the 2?They will be in chaos while we are there and after we leave.