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Posted: Mar 25, 2015

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575 US troops died in Afghanistan during the Bush presidency. By August 18, 2010, following two troop surges initiated by President Obama, that number had doubled. Today, over 1500 US troops have died in Afghanistan since President Obama took office—and yet, little in that war-torn country has changed.

These numbers should give us pause. While the Administration has publicly conceded that there is no military solution in Afghanistan, and claimed that it supports 'Afghan-led reconciliation', its policy on the ground is marked by a refusal to establish a timetable for full military withdrawal even after misleading Americans into thinking that all US troops would be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

We must ask ourselves how many more lives will be sacrificed before the Obama administration sets a clear end date for America's longest war.

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Under Obama: 75% of Casualties in 13-Year Afghan War; 55 More in 2014

January 7, 2015 - 6:49 PM


 

By Ali Meyer

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U.S. and British soldiers talk at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. The bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding several others nearby. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

(CNSNews.com) – Fifty-five U.S. servicemen were killed in Afghanistan in 2014, bringing the total number of American fatalities in the 13-year war to 2,232, according to a CNSNews.com database.

Of those 2,232 deaths, 1,663 – 74.5 percent – occurred since President Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009. The deadliest years for U.S. personnel were 2010, when 495 were killed; 2011, when there were 404 casualties; and 2009 when the death toll was 306.

Those three years combined accounted for more than half, or 54 percent, of the total U.S. casualties in the war.

In 2014, 42 fatalities (76.4 percent) were combat related, attributed to small arms fire, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), or rocket-propelled grenades. The other 13 deaths were due to accidents, illnesses, or heart attacks.

On December 28, 2014 Obama released a statement announcing the end of the combat mission in Afghanistan, yet more than 10,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan.

“The end of 2014 officially concluded Operation Enduring Freedom as our Afghan partners assumed responsibility for the security of their country,” said Marine Major Brad Avots at the Department of Defense.

“In 2015, we begin our follow-on mission, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, to help secure and build upon the hard-fought gains of the last 13 years. First, the U.S. will work with our NATO allies as part of NATO’s non-combat Resolute Support mission to continue training, advising and assisting the ANSF [Afghan National Security Forces].”

“Second, the U.S. will conduct a separate CT [counter-terrorism] mission against remnants of al-Qaeda to ensure Afghanistan will never again be used to stage attacks against the U.S. and her allies,” Avots said.

“Currently, we have approximately, 10,600 service members in Afghanistan. By the end of 2015, we will reduce our troop presence by roughly half and consolidate our forces in Kabul and Bagram. By the end of 2016, our military will draw down to a Kabul-based security assistance presence.”

(Last May Obama announced that 9,800 U.S. troops would remain from the beginning of 2015, reduced to half that number by a year later, and that by the end of 2016 all will be gone apart from an embassy security component. Last month Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the number of U.S. forces due to remain in Afghanistan after Dec. 31 not be the previously-announced 9,800, but 10,800.)

In his Dec. 28 statement Obama said that “Afghanistan remains a dangerous place, and the Afghan people and their security forces continue to make tremendous sacrifices in defense of their country.”

“At the invitation of the Afghan government, and to preserve the gains we have made together, the United States – along with our allies and partners – will maintain a limited military presence in Afghanistan to train, advise and assist Afghan forces to conduct counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al-Qaeda,” he said.

“Our personnel will continue to face risks, but this reflects the enduring commitment of the United States to the Afghan people and to a united, secure and sovereign Afghanistan that is never again used as a source of attacks against our nation.”

 

 

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The numbers in Iraq also sadden me, a war that should...sm - VTMT

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never have happened, over 4000 dead on GWB's watch.

I initially brought up Iraq/Afg below, but both the lib and this post are irrelevant to my point - Independent

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This discussion originated below, under a post regarding Obama being "psychopathic" because he lied to the American people.

Neither "Dr. Carson" nor any of us are licensed and qualified to diagnose psychopaths, that takes someone with an MD and license in psychiatry. However, I did agree Obama had horribly lied, but I also pointed out he hasn't been the only president to lie on such a grand scale, namely GWB.

Then someone asked me how Bush lied, and I answered that the reasons for the transition from the "War on Terrorism" to Iraq instead of Afghanistan was a big lie and why, as well as I felt MANY lives were lost as a result of this transition.

Then someone made the point that lives were being lost with Obamacare as well.

I pointed out that I've no doubt that may be true, we do not have definitive proof that many lives were lost as a direct result of Obamacare, yet, as unlike war, lives lost with healthcare can be attributed to many other things such as clinical staff decisions or patient noncompliance.

I'm not sure how this discussion transformed into "who lost more lives in Iraq/Afg, Bush or Obama," and it really doesn't matter, lost lives are lost lives. My was BOTH had lied to the American people in various ways, on a grand scale.

I'm not sure why the lib brought up a graph of lives lost in war by both presidents. However, I'm also not sure why this post is being brought up again above that discussion, either.

But what I do know, is you both are better than this:)

So c'mon, ya'll - you know it really doesn't matter "who lost more lives" or "who lied more" - the point I was trying to make is that both had lied to the American people on a grand scale - period.

Of course he is going to say that. Anything to get the blame off him - where it rightly belongs - sm

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Any talk about this being Bush's war are gone. The O is continuing on. He is not making an attempt to end it (after all there is no profit if it ends). This is now his war, NOT Bush's anymore.

Iraq or Afghanistan? - nm

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Obama screwed up both - ...

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I would guess Afghanistan since - different poster

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Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq and let ISIS take over.

To his credit, Obama now sees the error of his ways and is slowing the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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