Why have American deaths in Afghanistan soared under 0bama? I thought he was better than Bush?

Sorry but you are wrong. He's worse than Bush, and Carter. He's Carter on steroids!

I miss George!

After 8 years of watching Bush stumble and look stupid in everything he tried everyone by then knew he was incompetent but now after watching Obama do the same in only one year we have a chance to correct this crap and that will be in 2010 and 2012 and stop this nonsense once and for all// Man there is no need to watch another asshole do the same crap for 8 years again when after only a year we see it's just more of the same with Bo BO the clown as it was with Bushy the cowboy//

The only thing Obama is better at than Bush is spending OUR money! Obama has surrounded himself with his friends that he calls "advisers", that know squat about the real world! The military advisers he has chosen are the only ones who know what's happening, but Obama won't listen to them! He takes much to long to react to the military situations! He only listens to the idiots that were former "organizers" like himself. They have college "degrees" on their wall, but absolutely no experience or common sense! He thinks all you have to do is "be nice" to the bad guys and they'll come around! They'll come around all right, with a bomb in their underwear and try to bring down an airliner in Detroit! Make a nice speech and tell the world that the USA has been wrong all these years, apologize for everything we've supposedly done, and hope that everybody just gets along! He has done just the complete opposite of everything he "promised" during his campaign! Obama and Congress are leading this country right down the road to our second "Great Depression"! I hope I'm wrong, but I've been around people who went through the first "Great Depression" and they're telling me this is exactly the same way it got started in 1929!

This is an excellent question. I thought the world was going to love us now that we have Prez OhBama. Especially after he went around the world apologizing for how we are just a down right mean country.

I guess now Afghanistan has grown the stones that we have lost.

good question, and why do no longer they record that lots of the Afghan deaths have been the consequence of Obama's use of the Kill/catch (shoot on sight, whether unarmed and no possibility exist, no questions asked, in direction of a civilian filled city highway if % be) application. Media does no longer % the left to get a foul flavor of their mouth for their guy.

i would imagine because obama has increased both the troop count and the level of activity in afghanistan. after the invasion of iraq afghanistan was largely ignored by the bush administration. military operations weren't anywhere near what they were in iraq at the time. obama has increased focus on afghanistan while drawing down troops and military action in iraq. i don't think it's a matter of being better or worse. the focus has just shifted.

A liberal friend of mine says that if our honorable soldiers die in battle on Obama's watch, they didn't really die, since Obama isn't a war president even though he's waging 2 wars abroad, and is unaware of the third war against terrorism he is responsible for but not fighting

Because Obama, against all advice, changed the mission in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is virtually unwinnable. GWB knew this and that is why it was primarily a humanitarian mission under GWB once the Taliban was removed

Because Obama is deploying more troops to Afghanistan and intensifying operations there to try and fix the giant CF the previous administration created by totally botching the A-stan operation.

Curious how you don't also note how dramatically casualties in Iraq have DROPPED under Obama. Perhaps more perspective and less blind, mindless ideology in your approach would give you a shred of credibility.

Not to mention more than 200,000 deaths since April in Iraq.