74% of U.S. Afghan Casualties Came After Obama Ordered Troops Increased

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January 9, 2014, By Ali Meyer

(CNSNews.com) - Seventy-four percent of the U.S. military personnel who have given their lives serving in the Afghan War died after Feb. 17, 2009, when President Barack Obama announced his first increase in the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, according to CNSNews.com’s database of U.S. casualties in the war.

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Again, does this surprise anyone? How can you fight a successful war when your Commander-in-Chief gives you rules of engagement that shackle your hands? And, God forbid you happen to fail to follow those rules – you'll find yourself facing a courts-martial.