“Afghanistan is now deadlier than Iraq ever was.”

Jesus.

VetVoice.

When the Iraq War reached its deadliest peak during a 10-week period in April, May, and June of 2007, 308 coalition troops died. That was 1 out of every 575 troops on the ground at the time.* It was a terrible period in which even the most die-hard Bush supporters began to question the sense in continuing the occupation. By contrast, 105 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan during the past 10 weeks. But because there are only 52,700 troops in Afghanistan, this represents 1 out of every 502 troops on the ground.

The war in Iraq–at its most violent peak–was never as dangerous for our troops as Afghanistan now is. In the past 10 weeks, three American soldiers have been captured, killed, and chopped up. Nine American soldiers were killed in a single instance when their outpost was overrun by Taliban militants. And today, the violence only intensified: 10 French soldiers were slaughtered in an ambush, with four of them being captured and subsequently executed. Around the same time, Afghan insurgents launched a coordinated attack on a major U.S. base.

The fatality rate in Afghanistan during the past 10 weeks would be equivalent to 353 deaths in Iraq at the same time–a rate not even seen during the bloody crescendo of 2007.

This is a crisis.

Guess that’s why the Pentagon is sending up to 15,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

Man, wouldn’t it have been nice if Bush, Cheney, and their henchman in the Senate John McCain hadn’t completely fucking abandoned that war to engage in a war of choice war that was better for business back home?