U.S. Casualties in Afganhistan Hit Record

[Bigmack]

Source: AP

US Casualties in Afghanistan Hit Record
By Jason Straziuso
The Associated Press

Monday 31 December 2007

Kabul, Afghanistan - U.S. military deaths, suicide bombings and opium production hit record highs in 2007. Taliban militants killed more than 925 Afghan police, and large swaths of the country remain outside government control.

Still, six years after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, violence persists in much of southern Afghanistan where the government has little presence, and recent militant attacks in Pakistan highlight a long- term regional problem with al-Qaida and the Taliban.

Taliban fighters avoided head-on battles with U.S., NATO and Afghan army forces in 2007, resorting instead to ambushes and suicide bombings, but militants attacked the weakest of Afghan forces to devastating effect.

Afghanistan in 2007 saw record violence that killed more than 6,500 people, including 110 U.S. troops - the highest level ever in Afghanistan - and almost 4,500 militants, according to an Associated Press count. Britain lost 41 soldiers, while Canada lost 30. Other nations lost a total of 40.

Read more: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010108Y.shtml

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It's working... NOT!

[gratuitous]

1. Isn't that where things are going so swimmingly?

New highs for casualties in both Afghanistan and Iraq in 2007. But for some reason, we're assured over and over again that the surge is working/has worked, and so we need to keep spending money and lives in these quagmires.

But just think, 10 years from now, the accepted conventional wisdom will be that these little exercises in empire were colossal mistakes, but the Dirty Fucking Hippies were still wrong to oppose the pre-emptive invasion of two other countries.

[cliss]

2. We can't do it.

It's becoming obvious: we can't maintain control of Afghanistan. We lost control of Iraq. Pakistan is a powder keg, ready to blow.

We are unable to hold things together. I think that's becoming clear to the folks in Washington & at the Pentagon.

[LynnTheDem]

3. heckuva job, bushie!

Two wars lost,

Billions of treasury lost,

Hundreds of thousands of lives wasted, lost,

Worldwide hatred at record highs.

Give george w. bUsh the Presidential Medal of Honor!

[saigon68]

4. "Bring Em On" shouted the Puppet Mayor of Kabul