Study: current death rate for Afghanistan higher than for Iraq invasion.

[Crunchy Frog]

Afghan casualty rate worse than Iraq as three more Britons die

CAMERON SIMPSON and DAVID ROSS September 07 2006
Three more British soldiers died yesterday in Afghanistan as a study revealed that attacks by the resurgent Taliban have raised the death rate of coalition troops to double that during the invasion of Iraq. ~snip~

The study by the Royal Statistical Society said that since May an average of five soldiers a week had been killed out of the 18,500 in Afghanistan with Nato's International Security Assistance Force. Britain has about 4000 troops as part of the force. That is more than twice the death rate suffered during the 43-day fight for Iraq in 2003, when the UK lost 33 of its 46,000 deployed troops.

Sheila Bird, RSS vice-president, argued official casualty figures did not give a true picture of the risks faced by forces as they did not reveal fatalities as a proportion of the number of soldiers deployed.

She told New Scientist: "The commentary we are getting from politicians about this conflict does not do justice to the threat our forces now face in Afghanistan."
The latest deaths raised the number of British soldiers killed to 40 since deploying to Afghanistan in November 2001.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/69613-print.shtml

[Erika]

1. It is sad how Iraq and Afghanistan is deteriorating

and W is lying about it. You don't see W over there.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. I didn't think anybody, not even Bush

would be able to screw up things so thoroughly. I think things are going to get much, MUCH worse before this walking catastrophe leaves office. I can't believe his ratings are even still in the double digits.