Re: 592 U.S. Soldiers Dead Since President Obama's Afghan Surge Began

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592 U.S. Soldiers Dead Since President Obama's Afghan Surge Began
(posted with permission from: http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2011/04/592-us-soldiers-dead-since-president.html)

By the time you read this it's probably more. Yet the 592 deaths: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x799450
barely tell the story. Each dead soldier left a family: including maybe a small child or two, all of these people devastated by their loss. Thousands more U.S. troops have been severely wounded and will suffer a lifetime of disability and pain.

The death count for Afghans is far higher, destroying family after family and orphaning God knows how many children, along with killing and maiming many other children. All of this in the name of Peace.

But the U.S. news media gives it little coverage, as they also give little coverage to the continuing death and destruction in the Iraq War. The American dead are shipped home in body bags and they and their families receive little or no coverage, as if they didn't exist. By contrast, if a Hollywood star has drug problems, it's headline news, covered in nauseating detail.

10 years into the Afghan War, why is it being fought? Why is the Iraq War being fought? ThinkProgress reported the FY2011 cost of the Afghan war is $113 billion. Do we not have better uses for that money? For teachers? Police? Firefighters? Operation Head Start and school meals for poor children? Our government is borrowing 40% of all the money it spends but spends ever more on weapons and wars as it races to fiscal and moral bankruptcy!

If this insanity troubles you as it does me, please raise your voice. What you think matters and if enough of us raise our voices, our war mad government will be forced to respond to the will of the people.

[dkf]

1. Wouldn't it be ironic if we land up arming more al Queda in Libya than exist in Afghanistan?

[dipsydoodle]

4. When .....

might be more accurate than "wouldn't it be ironic if"

They'll export them elsewhere to be used against the US and that really is ironic.

I can only assume that in some language or other MUG is an anagram of USA.

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6. Arming in hopes of achieving peace....

I just can't wrap my mind around that concept.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[dipsydoodle]

5. Some unreccing goin' on here too.

I guess its that "change" subject again. :rofl:

[Bluebear]

3. Give that man a Peace prize.

[Skittles]

7. gawd, PT

I feel like I live in BIZARRO WORLD :(

[gimama]

8. a sad & angry k'n'r ..nt

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9. a sad & angry "Thank You" nt

[doc03]

10. You would never know it, they don't even report deaths

over there anymore.

[Harmony Blue]

11. That is the sad part

Every life is valuable, and for the news media to not report deaths of our soldiers in Afghanistan rubs me the wrong way...

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. It's beyond stupid and it's beyond evil. And this is what...

... we're supposed to settle for next year?

Hmmmmm........I don't think so.

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13. We are no closer to a solution or getting out since President Obama launched the surge..

..in December, 2009.

Incidentally, the 30,000 U.S. surge troops began arriving the week of December 14th, 2009 shortly before Christmas. You can imagine how their families felt and how disappointed the Afghan people were seeing the war escalate. At the time, the Afghans were asking for 30,000 engineers or 30,000 teachers and instead got a gigantic explosive lump of coal from President Obama.