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Move America Forward | January 29, 2011
Updated numbers coming from defense officials seem to contrast with President Obama’s recent State of the Union address. While Obama’s rhetoric painted a picture of success in Afghanistan, he boldly declared that progress was on track and that beginning in July we would start drawing down our troops.
Despite Obama’s rhetoric, we have an unfortunate reminder of reality today as we learned that IED attacks are up in Afghanistan. We know from our experiences in Iraq that IEDs are the most dangerous weapons threatening our troops. The terrorists can’t stand toe-to-toe against our troops who are far better trained and equipped, but by planting roadside bombs, the enemy can inflict devastating harm on our troops or civilians unlucky enough to be passing by at the wrong time.
| The Improvised Explosive Device (IED), also known as roadside bombs, killed 268 American troops in Afghanistan in 2010, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
The figure shows a 60 percent increase over the previous year even as the Pentagon adopts new measures in an attempt to counter the Taliban’s most used weapon. According to the US Defense’s figures, the number of US troops wounded by the IEDs has also seen a sharp increase in comparison with that of 2009. |
These roadside bombs are a scourge in Afghanistan, as they were in Iraq. But our troops proved in Iraq that despite the IEDs, we can still win by defeating the terrorists on the ground, and fostering partnerships with the locals who just want the Taliban to stop harassing and threatening their villages.
It will brighten the day of the American who receives it!
STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
MAF Blogger Danny was invited to the local Fox affiliate KTXL on Wednesday following President Obama’s State of the Union address to give our reaction. Danny covered several topics from Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, even hitting Obama on Guantanamo Bay and civilian trials for GITMO detainees.
We give credit where credit is due, and when President Obama congratulated the troops for winning in Iraq, we said he was right to praise them, but when it came to Afghanistan and Iran we took Obama to task for his lack of leadership on both fronts. Promising to start bringing home troops only 7 months from now is NOT the right message to be sending to our enemies!
On Guantanamo Bay, which Obama didn’t even mention during his speech, we took credit for helping to stop Obama’s plans to close the facility.
Watch the whole interview for yourself by clicking below!
We’ve also recently finished up another new video; this one is a compilation of a few news stories and some video taken by MAF staffers of our care package operation. Your generous donations over the holidays made this possible, and thanks to your continued support we were able to reach our goal of $60,000 to send care packages to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Watch the video here!
We sent hundreds of care packages to the troops over the holidays, thanks to donors like you, but we still have much more support to give, and the troops still need us!
Make a donation now so we can send more care packages just like in the video!
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