While Obama is "concentrating" on Libya, the president is neglecting another important or "good" war in Afghanistan. This "good" war is unjust because Obama doesn't have a clear mission for our troops. He actually added more soldiers to Afghanistan without an objective. The travesty of the war is the incompetence in the leadership by Obama. The president is deliberately ignoring the war in Afghanistan while trying to concentrate the war in Libya for political expediency. It is an election year cycle, you know.
(CNSNews.com) – At least 858 U.S. soldiers have died in the Afghanistan war since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009. That equals 60.13 percent of the 1,427 American soldier fatalities so far in the ongoing 10-year war in that country.
For March 2011, there were 26 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan, including 4 non-combat related fatalities. That brought the total combat and non-combat deaths for 2011 (January, February, and March) to 70. Those fatalities include 57 combat-related deaths and 13 non-combat deaths.
For the 858 U.S. deaths since Obama’s inauguration, 791 have been combat-related. This means that for the 1,241 combat-related deaths that occurred since the Afghanistan war began in October 2001, about 64 percent happened in the two years since Obama took office.
Last year was the deadliest for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, with 497 combat and non-combat fatalities. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), or homemade bombs, continue to be the number one killer of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
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