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August 17, 2010

Number of Troops Killed Under Obama in Afghanistan to Surpass Bush
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The website Just Foreign Policy is reporting 575 US soldiers have lost
their lives in the Afghan war since President Obama took office. That is
the same number of US soldiers killed during the first seven years of
the war under President Bush. When the next US soldier is reported dead,
the majority of US deaths in Afghanistan will have occurred under
President Obama. The tally is based on data from the webstite
icasualties.org.



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