2008 Now the Deadliest Year in Afghanistan. Would You Know That By Going to the RNC?
An attack in Afghanistan killed a U.S. soldier today, bring the death toll for that conflict in 2008 to 112. AP reports:
Militants attacking a compound in Afghanistan’s east killed a U.S. soldier on Thursday, making 2008 the deadliest year yet for American forces in the country that sheltered al-Qaida while the terror group plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The NATO-led force said the soldier was killed in eastern Afghanistan “when insurgents attacked a compound.” It provided no other details, but a Western military official told The Associated Press that the soldier was American.
Thursday’s death brings to 112 the number of troops who have died in Afghanistan this year, surpassing last year’s record toll of 111.
Afghanistan has clearly taken a sharp turn for the worse, but you wouldn’t know that if you were in the twin cities last week. A tally taken Wednesday night by Progressive Accountability tracked the lip service paid to different issues up until that point. Iraq clocked in at 11 mentions, McCain’s Vietnam service got 20. Heck, the word “Pelosi” was even mentioned 4 times. Afghanistan? Zero.
And this is the party with its finger on the national security pulse?
