US forces suffer their deadliest month yet in Afghan campaign

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David Usborne
London Independent
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The cost of war is coming into painful focus for Americans as the month of August closes as the deadliest so far in the decade-long war in Afghanistan, and as a Congressional watchdog releases research showing that tens of billions of dollars meant for contractors in both the Afghan and Iraq conflicts have been squandered.

As of last night, the US military had lost 66 personnel in Afghanistan since the start of the month, topping by one the death toll for July 2010, which was previously the deadliest single month since the invasion was first ordered by President George W Bush in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

While a disturbing statistic by any measure, particularly at a time when President Barack Obama has ordered the withdrawal by September 2012 of all 33,000 of the extra troops he sent in as part of a surge strategy in Afghanistan, it was skewed by a single attack on a Chinook helicopter on 6 August which killed 30 US service personnel, including 17 Navy Seals.

It marked the single-largest loss of life since the start of the war.

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5 Responses to “US forces suffer their deadliest month yet in Afghan campaign”

  1. US forces suffer their deadliest month yet in Afghan campaign
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    This comes as no surprise. Obama changed the ROE. Then again, look at the “4 star clowns” running the show for TPTB in the pentagon.

    Military Strategists?!! Military tacticians?!! SHIT! “Not today boy”! After ten years of war, they still haven’t figured out how to conduct an operation in such a way as to reduce the risk to our troops?!!! Bullshit!

    After Stalin took over, he had any and all of the General staff either killed or imprisoned (over 30 thousand of them). He replaced them with his “toadies”. Those toadies got their asses kicked when they tried to invade Finland. The Finns beat the hell out of the Russians in-spite of the fact they were outnumbered better than 3 to 1. Does this sound familiar? It should. Obama is following the same script. What a stupid bastard!

    Hitler saw the weakness of the Soviets and decided he wanted to take Russia.

    Proof?

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

    There ya go!

    Damn, if I dont hate obama! He never served this nation or picked up a weapon to defend it.
    Just like the “corporal” tried to tell his generals just how to conduct warfare, obama is doing the same stupid thing.

    Germany lost WWII the day they declared war on the USA. Only one nation has ever fought a war on two fronts successfully. That would be the USA. Obama couldn’t find his own sorry ass even if it was handed to him on a silver platter. I hate the bastards guts. Theres no law that says I can’t do that. So, for the “obama spies” out there, “read it and weep, while you’re at it, go fuck yourselves.

    Bravo2……out

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    August 31st, 2011 at 8:28 am

    THE ODDS THERE ARE 15,000 FIGHTERS AGAINST 150,000 US COMBAT TROOPS.

    10 TO 1

    AND WE GOT WOUNDER WEAPONS AND THEY’RE STILL GETTING THEIR ASS KICKED !

    WAIT UNTIL IT HAPPENS HERE AND THE ODDS ARE 1000 TO 1.

    WE WILL CHEW UP AN ARMY OF MILLIONS IN 1 DAY !

  2. short memories…
    bin laden is dead

  3. AND THIS DOESNT COUNT THE 10,000 THAT DIED OF THEIR WOUNDS ON THE WAY TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF COUNTRY AND THEY ARNT COUNTED.

  4. I can’t really feel sorry for anyone still dumb enough to sign up for this war on terror. It is going on for ten years now with no end in sight. Most people signing up now have to realize its just about occupying countries to install puppet governments, and they are willing to do it for a lousy paycheck.

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