Another 119 deaths in Obama’s war in Afghanistan occured in 2013, bringing the total deaths of American troops to 2,162 in what Obama described as ‘the good war’ in Afghanistan. Remember wheh the media used to report daily on the Iraq ‘body counts’ of dead troops in Iraq? Somehow, it’s different in Afghanistan as the media never reports on the amount of dead troops there. Oh yea, it’s because it’s Obama’s war. Obama has managed to get 1,604 Americans killed in Afghanistan in just under five years. The war there started in 2001.
The 119 American deaths brought the overall total to 2,162 since U.S. troops were first deployed to Afghanistan more than 12 years ago on October 7, 2001, according to AP’s detailed Afghanistan casualties database.
Of the total 2,162 U.S. fatalities throughout the ongoing war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, 1,604 have died since Obama was inaugurated for his first term on January 20, 2009.
Obama escalated the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan soon after taking office. There have also been changes in rules of engagement under his presidency.
Almost three out of every four American deaths in Afghanistan have occurred under Obama’s watch. There have been almost three times more U.S. fatalities during the estimated five years of the current administration than under the eight years of the previous one.