We are nearing 100 NATO dead in Afghanistan this month, something that happened only 8 times in Iraq

[tekisui]

Five more coalition service members, 4 Norwegians and one British, died in Afghanistan today. The total killed for the month of June is around 98, with three bloody days to go.

This has been the most deadly month in Afghanistan's near-decade long war. We will see a tragic milestone of 100 dead in a month, a figure that was reached in only 8 months of the 7 1/2 years of the War in Iraq. Think about that a moment.

We are now reaching Iraq War levels of violence in Afghanistan. US and coalition deaths have doubled from this time last year. Remember, last year was the deadliest year of the Afghanistan War with 521 coalition forces killed.

More US soldiers have been wounded in Afghanistan in the past 12 months than in the previous 8 years combined.

Finally, President Obama admitted that we will be in Afghanistan for "a long time to come." Any reduction in troops next summer will be just that, a reduction. Not a withdrawal.

This war has no end in sight and the violence is accelerating in its escalating.

The coalition is becoming the coalition of the leaving. Denmark and the Netherlands are set to leave this year. Canada next year. Poland in 2012. Australia within two years after that. The G8 members in Afghanistan (France, UK, Germany and Italy) are prepping to leave in 2015.

In response to that date, 2015, President Obama said we would be there as long as it takes.

President Obama will not get us out of Afghanistan. That is not his stated objective. It will be up to the next president to wise up and get us the hell out, it seems.

[ixion]

1. Yeah, but we have to feed the MIC, and Big Oil wants that Trans-Afghani oil pipeline

so... :sarcasm:

[tekisui]

2. And we have to flex political muscle!

We are stuck there. The Administration has been giving us the hard-sell on Afghanistan for so long, they are bound to it. THey billed it as the right war, the war that needed to be won. Now they are realizing it is another wrong war, a lost war and they are bound to it.

This is what happens when Dems take repuke positions. It only brings them down.

[tekisui]

3. kick

[amborin]

4. sacrificed for the profits of the mic

[tekisui]

5. kick

[Karmadillo]

6. 98 dead over there kept 1,000,000s from dying over here.

I'm trying to fit in. Did I get it right?

[tekisui]

7. kick

[leftstreet]

8. K&R