[Peace-discuss] 386 Americans - and countless Asians - have died this year alone, because Obama is a criminal

[C. G. Estabrook]

  "What the numbers say about progress in Afghanistan"
By: CNN National Security Supervising Producer Adam Levine

Washington (CNN) – American support for the war in Afghanistan has never been 
lower, according to the latest CNN polling...

The latest poll from CNN and Opinion Research Corporation found only 37% of all 
Americans favor the war, 52% say the war in Afghanistan has turned into a Vietnam.

Those numbers are going down as US commitment to the war is going up, 
significantly. 30,000 more troops added this year. At the time the troop 
increase was announced, military leaders were aware it would mean a rise in 
troop casualties...

Still the daily headlines about troop deaths is [sic] staggering. 16 NATO troops 
have been killed in the last three days. The US has lost 386 troops so far this 
year.

...Last month there were 700 airstrikes, according to Air Force data obtained by 
National Security producer Jennifer Rizzo. A year ago only 257 strikes were logged.

More numbers: In the last 90 days NATO forces have killed 300 senior Taliban and 
insurgent leaders and commanders, as well as 800 fighters and detained 2,000 
more, a senior military official in Afghanistan told Pentagon correspondent 
Barbara Starr...

[And if you believe any senior US military official, try to find someone to take 
care of you... --CGE]