Posted on 08/17/2010 5:55:44 PM PDT by Peter Andrew Conservative
The liberal H.R. Huff-n-Stuffington Post website has an interesting story up calling Afghanistan President Obama's War now. They say 575 soldiers have died in Afghanistan since Obama took office, a number they claim is equal to the number who died in Afghanistan when George W. Bush was President.
From Robert Naiman's article at the Huffington Post....
"575. That's how many U.S. soldiers have lost their lives in the Afghanistan war since Barack Obama became President at noon on January 20, 2009,... when the next U.S. soldier is reported dead, the majority of U.S. deaths in Afghanistan will have occurred under President Obama. This grim landmark should be reported in the media, and White House reporters should ask Robert Gibbs to comment on it. It is quite relevant to Gibbs' implicit attempt to marginalize critics of the war in Afghanistan by claiming that they wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than the abolition of the Pentagon."
The Official Obama Death Count, including not only deaths in Afghanistan, but Iraq and elsewhere around the world (such as the Fort Hood shooting victims) is 791 as of this writing.
You can see the entire list of soldiers who have died since Obama became president by clicking here.
You can read the controversial Obama Death Count story here. This explains why we keep the count at ConservativeAmerican.org.
He said two things: that Afghanistan was the “real” war, and that he would invade Pakistan.
So they can’t pretend they didn’t know his official position.
......As if they give a damn about any of our soldiers dying in battle...
So where is the Media coverage? Stephy used to have the pictures and names of those killed every Sunday. The WP had color picture spreads once a week of who was killed and kept a daily tally of the killed and wounded. Cindy Sheehan was covered during her demonstrations. Now that The One is in charge, a cone of silence has descended on the country when it comes to Afghanistan.
If he had provided 40,000 soldiers instead of dithering and then providing just 30,000, many lies could have been saved. Obama is PERSONALLY responsible for every death since the time of his dithering.
How true, how true.
They could give a crap less about our military.
MY Marine nephew just returned from his second tour in Afghanistan.
The first 90 days he slept on the ground in Kandahar — face melting off during the day, teeth chattering cold at night.
He didn’t have a hot meal over there for nearly 7 months, except for the goat or duck that the accompanying Afghanies cooked for them.
He says he never wants to eat another MRE (meal ready to eat) for the rest of his life.
My heart goes out for him — not those weenie leftists using the number 791 dead to advance their own anti-military agenda...
Kabar,
Thanks for getting the ENTIRE point of our “Obama Death Count” story. You hit it right on the head.
KoRn,
Right you are. However, the “weenie lefties” use the 575 number. It’s our ConservativeAmerican.org death count (see my comment to Kabar above) that has the tally at 791 and Kabar understands why we do it!
Wow!!!
I know our guys are tough, but in this day and age of our military, such conditions are unacceptable for our troops, suffered through for a long period of time. We are MORE than capable of giving them the basic comforts in the field. If not, someone needs to be fired, because our logistics AREN’T WORKING.
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