Deaths in Afghanistan Skyrocket under Obama

From a new Congressional Research Service report, American casualties soar in Afghanistan since Obama took over:

Afghan civilian casualties, although the numbers are less solid than DoD’s tracking of Americans killed, have also skyrocketed under Obama’s surge. See here for the estimates. Hard to match this up with Obama’s claim that “the tide of war is receding.”

21 thoughts on “Deaths in Afghanistan Skyrocket under Obama”

  1. The numbers are higher because the U.S. did not truly start in Afghanistan until end of 2008 and begining of 2009. What is this data truly saying? We were still fighting a war in Iraq instead of Afghanistan so our troops were mainly in Iraq because of President Bush as I recall.

    1. I take it that you were never sent there to fight. All I can say is trust me, we were fighting from day one. All Obama did was put more targets on the ground and can you tell me what good it has done?

      Ps. The blame Bush BS is getting old. He was wrong butt that doesn't make Obama right.

    2. BUSH DID IT!!! One idiot blaming another idiot, instead of blaming the actual idiot who escalated the fighting. I love the internet.

      1. Obama has been in office for almost 4 years now and he has only escalated all conflicts but one – Iraq. Bush did it OK – and he was also the one who signed the SOFA agreement that caused withdrawal to — Kuwait. Obomba in fact tried to prolong the US presence and we do not know what he will do after the election. His word is worthless.

        I would also point out that this graph is misleading. The last point is a projection. So we do not know whether the numbers will come down. But Obama is off to fight in East Asia sending marines to Darwin Australia – with more to come to threaten the South China Sea. And for the war on Libya Obomba did not even bother to lie to Congress as Bush did. He ignored Congress altogether. That deserves impeachment.

        The partisan Republican/Democrat debate is for suckers. Not a dime's worth of difference between them. And as Black Agenda Report reminds us, Obomba is not the lesser evil; he is the more effective evil because he can get the pwogwessives to lie down and roll over while he carries out policies at least as bad as Bush's.

        WAKE UP, MAN. YOU ARE SLEEP WALKING.

  2. One Nobel Peace Prize wasn't enough. They should have given him three. Maybe an even dozen.

    How many fingers am I holding up?

  3. I love how they include 2012 though it was only 18 days in. Makes a much nicer chart at a glance if you're trying to mitigate a disastrous appearance.

  4. that charts gonna fly through the top of your fucking monitor if they ever decide to attack iran or pak

  5. Wow, Congressional Research Service sure makes some incredibly amateurish looking charts. What are these guys 5th graders?

  6. I really couldn't care less about American troop casualties in a war where they are the aggressors, occupiers, torturers, murderers. You want to show some moral courage? Don't join the military and tell your brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, neighbors, friends ,etc. not to either.

    1. And after America has laid down her arms, how do you plan to stop our enemies from walking in and taking over? If someone comes at you with a knife would you really just bare your throat and say "have at it"? Pacifism is all fine and well when everyone in the room is a pacifist, but put ten pacifists and a mass murderer in the same room and see how fast the pacifists start finding something to use as a weapon! Would you really want to give up your country so easily or are you truly so naive that you believe that if America disarms everyone else would also?

    2. You're right! Tell them to prasie Alla. We are the only country that will at least try and help the world. You are an Idiot!!!!!

  7. "My boyfriend is fighting in Afghanistan!!" What a coward. Stop using that as an applause/sympathy line. If you're truly anti-war, then you'll do everything you can to stop people from joining the killing machine.

    1. I love the name calling…and no…I am not a coward and I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm very well aware of the danger he's in. Heck…I lived through 11 years of war myself so I have been on the receiving end. How many Americans can say that they lived through 11 years of bombs dropping on their heads or rebels with guns walking and going through everything inside their house? I also never claimed to be anti-war. I honestly don't think the U.S. knows how to be anti-war. Ironically, they are fighting with people who don't know any better either so what can I say. I do my part to do the right thing on a daily basis and hope for the best. Maybe that's why the U.S. continues to fight…because the citizens of the U.S. can't relate to what it's truly like to be bombed at. The closest that they felt was 9/11 but not everyone in the U.S. truly understood the horror of that day. They watched it on TV like it was a movie instead of something real that took place and ripped so many peoples lives apart.

      1. And when your boyfriend comes home from Afghanistan, I wonder if he will follow orders to kill Americans protesting against the insane policies and leaders of the government he gets his paycheck from, or in the wake of NDAA, haul them off to FEMA camps for being dissenters, "domestic terrorists", "enemy combatants", etc.?

        1. Wow! I doubt that…my boyfriend and I already have different views on war because we come from different parts of the world…I also doubt any of that will happen. People need to start believing in the country that they live in and trust that things will get better or it's just going to continue to go downhill!

          1. If everyone just sits around trusting that things will get better, nothing will EVER get better! It takes ideas and then people putting those ideas into action in order to get things done. And hopefully the Nov. election will put enough new blood in DC to turn this country around!

          2. You are right. We have been sitting around long enough the past 4 years and it is time to get America back where she belongs. We are the best country in this world! America is a laughing stock to most countries now days due to all the bowing and ass kissing OBAMA does.

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