No US troops Killed in Combat last Month for first time since 2003

[JackLuis]

Hooray! after 11 years of casualties, we finally had one whole month without a combat death.

For the first time since 2007, no US troops were killed in Afghanistan in March, and for the first time since early 2003 no US troops were killed in combat anywhere in the world for a whole month.

In late February, Michael Munk had reported,

“… during the period ending Feb 20 the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 121,737.

The total includes 81,317 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 40,420 since the US invaded Afghanistan in November, 2001 (Operation “Enduring Freedom”).”

121,737 casualties, of course that doesn't count the opposing casualties, so who knows how many were effected by the Bush/Obama wars?

 

[eyer]

121,737 casualties, of course that doesn't count the opposing casualties, so who knows how many were effected by the Bush/Obama wars?

So...

...are you just visiting? You're not an American?

 

[Skiddles2014]

The troops were all busy signing up for Obamacare.

 

[JackLuis]

So...

...are you just visiting? You're not an American?

Yes I am an American, even though I voted for Richard Nixon.

Ever walked the long black ditch in D.C.? over 55,000 names on that wall, but that was just the dead.

Ever seen the rows of crosses on the banks of the Potomac?

Did you ever think about how many of those would not have died when they did,if their government had done a better job?

I just wonder why Obama isn't releasing this to the press? He finally accomplished one thing for his peace prize.

 

[eyer]

Did you ever think about how many of those would not have died when they did,if their government had done a better job?

And that's the difference between you and I which I attempted to highlight in my first post...

...you somehow imagine that it's simply government that needs to do a "better job", while I see it totally as a matter of the American people doing a "better job" holding their government to do a "better job".

The government must always be held accountable for its actions, whether good or bad...

...the American people must be held accountable for not only their government's actions, but also their own which enables or disallows all government action, whether good or bad.

It's the People, stupid...

...[a play on Carville's coin for Clinton, not a personal attack on you.]

 

[phrodeau]

Hooray! after 11 years of casualties, we finally had one whole month without a combat death.





121,737 casualties, of course that doesn't count the opposing casualties, so who knows how many were effected by the Bush/Obama wars?

And just too late for Rev. Fred Phelps to lack funerals to protest.

 

[renard_ruse]

Already lost some at Fort Hood this month.

 

[eyer]

Already lost some at Fort Hood this month.

Totally unlike the previous terrorist attack at the Fort...

...this time actually reads like workplace violence.