100 U.S. Dead in Afghanistan in Three Months

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Posted: 07/30/2012 2:54 pm
Bob Geiger

With so much else going on in the news -- a horrific mass shooting in Colorado, a huge election year and, of course, the economy -- it is far too easy for the average American to forget that we are a nation at war. What little public debate there is about the continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan is incredibly muted and our people appear to largely believe we are winding down in that conflict. So we have a recipe for ignorance in which the majority of Americans have no clue about how many of our men and women are dying there every day.

The numbers of our war dead in Afghanistan just since May 1 are both sad and astounding: over 100 troops have died in less than three months, with 39 killed in May, 29 in June and 35 so far in July.

To give you an idea of how we are most assuredly not "winding down," there have been 2,063 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan in the 10 years and nine months since our war there began -- or an average of 16 deaths a month for almost 11 years.

We have lost 100 of our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, spouses and parents in just the last three months -- does this sound like we're winding down to you?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-geiger/100-us-dead-in-afghanista_b_1711517.html

[spanone]

1. the media can only handle one or two items at a time....

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2. Fortunately, we can do better.

[Fumesucker]

4. To be fair..

If you try and spin more than one or two items at a time it can lead to severe vertigo..

The M$M cannot put on anything at all without spinning it like a damn pulsar..

[Purveyor]

3. Don't hear these deaths talked about much. Usually msm reports 'nato casualties' and then a

couple of days later, local state news reports will announce the death of someone from their state.

The 'forgotten war'? Perhaps as even I haven't been as diligent in reporting these casualties as I should be.

Thanks for posting this thread.

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5. I can't remember an election year when this country was at war and no one mentioned the war.

[newfie11]

6. We need the pictures of those caskets

Being unloaded off planes back in America. This was all over the TV during VietNam. Now out of sight out of mind. This war or non war is not given much thought to those with no family member in harms way.