{"id":13789,"date":"2012-01-23T19:15:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2012-01-23T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:23:18","slug":"rate-of-deaths-in-afghanistan-skyrockets-under-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/rate-of-deaths-in-afghanistan-skyrockets-under-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths in Afghanistan Skyrocket under Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/natsec\/R41084.pdf\">Congressional Research Service report<\/a>, American casualties soar in Afghanistan since Obama took over:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/rate-of-deaths-in-afghanistan-skyrockets-under-obama\/afghanistan-casualties-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13790\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/afghanistan-casualties-big-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/afghanistan-casualties-big--300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/afghanistan-casualties-big-.png 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afghan civilian casualties, although the numbers are less solid than DoD&#8217;s tracking of Americans killed, have also skyrocketed under Obama&#8217;s surge. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/natsec\/R41084.pdf\">here<\/a> for the estimates. Hard to match this up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/23\/rate_of_americans_killed_in_afghanistan_soars\/singleton\/\">Obama&#8217;s claim<\/a> that &#8220;the tide of war is receding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a new Congressional Research Service report, American casualties soar in Afghanistan since Obama took over: Afghan civilian casualties, although the numbers are less solid than DoD&#8217;s tracking of Americans killed, have also skyrocketed under Obama&#8217;s surge. See here for the estimates. Hard to match this up with Obama&#8217;s claim that &#8220;the tide of war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13789"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13796,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions\/13796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13789"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}