It just keeps getting worse
Posted By Bouhammer on March 2, 2009
Check out http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,502625,00.html and tell me it isn’t.
Last year around this time I wrote about how in the first two months of 2008 we had lost 22 coalition forces and that was a very bad sign of the things to come. Based on that and several other factors I made my very dire prediction that the trend was going to continue and we were going to witness the worse year to date in the numbers of US casualties and overall violence in Afghanistan.
I am sad to say that I have been saying the same thing again for the last month and the article just proves it. Of the 22 that died last year, 8 were Americans. This year we have already lost 29 US service-members in Afghanistan. That does not even account for other coalition forces (which is 18). From 8 to 29, and Jan-Feb are generally considered the “quiet” months when it comes to fighting. A majority of the enemy forces are fair-weather fighters and do not fight in the winter time.
So take those stats, along with statements by GEN. McKiernan, CJCS Mullen, and others, and 17,000 more soldiers running around the battlefield and we are surely going to see a sharp increase in the number of fallen warriors coming home.
I am afraid the “Popular-Forgotten” war is going to be getting more popular, but for all the wrong reasons.
God Speed Warriors…God-Speed.
I hate it when fallen warriors become pawns in a counting game.
They have names, and they had purpose.
Fair seas and following winds, gentle spirits. WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
OKAY, I got it wrong.
Fair winds and following seas.
My heart is with them all, as they are in my prayers..