KABUL – The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum.

Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in the number of wounded, with injuries more than tripling in the first two months of the year and trending in the same direction based on the latest available data for March."

full story: 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100327/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_war_deaths/print

     As yourself dear reader...why?  Why have more American service personnel died under Obama' watch?  Why.....it's because of Obama's leadership....yes leadership.   Obama has tied our service personnel's hands in Afghanistan while the Taliban, the heroin traffiicer's, and general terrorist, have taken full advantage of the Obama era "Rules of Engagement".   Obama knew had to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan to quell the Pentagon, Republicans, and concerned American's to get more troops in Afghanistan  in order to support the mission.  But Obama and his minions, going strictly by Rules for Radicals  .
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    "The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriate d weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly..." p.36

     Note that "clothe it with moral garments",  which is what Obama did when sending more troops into a combat zone and then tying their hands with absurd 'rules of engagement'.   I repeated that thought because that is exactly what Obama and his Administration planned from the get-go.  Get as many of the American military into Afghanistan under false pretext, bind them in combat, and hope that many of them will be killed and injured.  All in the plan of destroying the U.S. Military, which is the last great obstacle in the Leftist-Socialist-Radical dream of burning the U.S. Constitution and setting up their own form of dictatorship.  Sounds far fetched...does it really. 
    Then why did Obama flee Washington D.C. this weekend, and pull one of the most cowardly acts a President can do, make appointments without Congressional approval. 
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/27/obama-makes-recess-appointments-vacant-administration-posts/

"Despite intense Republican objections, President Obama on Saturday used recess appointments to fill 15 administration posts without Senate confirmation, including Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.

By filling the jobs while Congress is in recess, Obama gets around Senate confirmation. Obama justified the move by charging Republicans with playing politics with his administration nominees.

"The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees. But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis," he said in a written statement."

    Just like a bad relative or free loading friend, once you let them into your home, it's almost impossible to get them out.  With these Obama appointee's, the DNC controlled Congress will not allow a fair and impartial investigation go forward on these nominee's and they will get entrenched into the Offices Obama put them in.  With elections coming up, many members of Congress will be too busy to really have the time to set up challenges against Obama on these appointee's.   Again.....Obama, in the tradition of all leftist dictators, takes advantage of the system and exploits it for his own personal gain.  

   A clear and present danger does exist in the United States.......to the very existence of the United States.  We all knew, we all know, that no external power could destroy the United States, but only from within, could the very foundation that makes up this great Nation be weakened to the point that this Nation collapses from within and is destroyed.  The enemy from within is (you know who) and his Administration.   Just look at his last speech in Iowa last week, he is not any where near being a uniter, a leader of this Nation, but a solely a member of a group of people that seek this Nation's very downfall.   Many times during that speech (it's on YouTube, I just checked) he made statements and references that were nothing but divisive, deriding, antagonistic towards the Republicans, Conservatives, and anyone who does not worship him.   He is not a President of the United States, he is just a phony that happens to occupy the Office, and is abusing the privilege and power that the Office holds. 

   Now dear reader, if you were President, would you be issuing the U.S. Military the same rules of engagement that Obama has, or would you order something different?   Simple question. 

    November of this year, vote the Democrats out.  Vote them all out.  Vote for Republicans, Constitutionalist, Libertarians, but get all of the Democrats out.   And in 2012, make sure that Obama is not re-elected, vote him out of Office and put him on the unemployment line.

    This has been a very severe blog note.

Sunday March 28th:  I wrote this last night, then sent it into drafts, not sure if I wanted to post it.  But it's now even more relevant since Obama did not go to Camp David, but instead, seen what Prince Charles from the UK did, and tried the one upmanship game.  "See, I can fly to Afghanistan too and be unannounced...kind of."  I can hardly wait to see what kind of photo op props will come from this trip and Obama again uses people as props for his propaganda purposes.  Prince Charles at least had the nads to go out into the badlands and visit the UK'S front line troops.  I doubt Obama will.  Cowards don't do that kind of thing, you know, place their lives in jeopardy, in harms way. 
   I was thinking, Obama is in Afghanistan, doing this photo op, feel good one day....ONE DAY....trip.  And to add something of value and thought, to the crux of this blog post theme.  Obama has sent thousands of American troops into harms way, tied their hands with useless and deadly to them, rules of engagment, hoping, yes I'm willing to bet, he and Axelrod, Rahm, Soros since he's bankrolling Obama,  are all counting on high casualties among the U.S. Military in Afghanistan.  In their minds, under Rules for Radicals, by tying the military's hands, exposing the personnel to a very high percentage of being wounded or killed, Obama and the DNC can use this to their advantage during the next two elections.  They will say it's "Bush's war" and it was carelessly executed by the Bush Administration and Pentagon, they will trot out grieving family members who will be now staunch DNC members out of anger, and use the deaths as a reverse psychology move on voters for sympathy for the DNC and anger at the RNC.

   We should have know that Obama was going to go somewhere like Afghanistan this weekend.  There were no plans of a trip to alert the lap dog main stream media where to be, or for Obama Zombies to sit and wait with their hands out for tax payer freebies.  Obama is a narcissist,  he needs the camera's and adulation's from throngs of the walking dead aka Zombies.  So when nothing was announced this weekend......we should have known.  Obama can't just sit in the White House and be the President of the United States, just stay there and save taxpayer dollars....quite the opposite, but as many of us out here, in the neighbors know full well and factually accurate from years of observation of a certain group of people.....that it is almost a 'distinctive characteristic', 'character trait', that a 'certain group' must always 'put on the airs', to try and show everyone else something that they are definitely not, and it's often at the monetary expense of someone else.  True story, a now defunct department store, Gayfers, I happened to be in the women's section, waiting, and struck a conversation with the clerk after I observed a group of women returning perfectly good clothing.  I inquired, why are they all returning those pretty dresses and such?  The clerk replied:  'It's Gayfer's policy to refund clothing within a set time period and give the full purchase price back to a customer."   Then she went on to explain how the game was played...this group of ladies....always came in on a Thursday or Friday, picked out something nice i.e. dress, wore it to whatever during the weekend, and then returned it the following week.   I inquired how does Gayfer's make any profit?  "They don't" she said. 

    Now if the ...yes the...Obama's would start walking their talk...and quit blowing our tax dollars on all of their thrills, frills, and uber perks....they might have a leg to stand on when they continually ask us people out here...to sacrifice going out to eat, movie, etc. 

   I'm waiting for the photo op from Afghanistan, I"m sure it'll be plastered all week by the main stream media, just giddy that Obama cares about our service personnel to go visit them.....as he tells them..."don't shoot at the Taliban if they are near a house, even though they have you pinned down, wounded, and a buddy of yours is dead.  That's an order."