Thursday, May 3, 2012

U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan More Than Doubled Under Obama

May 3, 2012
M Catharine Evans

In yet another sin of omission, the national press corps has failed to report that more than twice as many U.S. military service people were killed in Afghanistan since Obama took office than in six and a half years of the Bush administration.

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year
Year  US  UK   Other  Total
2001        1 12    0      0   12
2002   49    3    18   70
2003   48    0    10   58
2004   52    1      7   60
2005   99    1    31 131
2006   98   39    54 191
2007 117   42    73 232
2008 155   51    89 295
2009 317 108    96 521
2010 499 103  109 711
2011 418   46  102 566
2012   93   16    31 140
Total 1957  410   620 2987

Nearly 100 soldiers have died in the last 122 days alone. The mainstream media must think dead soldiers under a Democrat are less dead than under a Republican. Remember when CNN ran daily body counts?

Obama, the anti-war Bush slanderer who pandered for votes from the likes of Code Pink, has just committed the U.S. to 12 more years in Afghanistan and billions of dollars in aid. Still, the MSM sycophants say nothing.

Read more M. Catharine Evans at Potter Williams Report

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