Let me first start with the differences between this and Iraq:
There is a real coalition in Afghanistan. Almost half of the deaths this year and last year were not Americans. This rate has been increasing. Afghanistan was actually connected to 9/11. The media has completely ignored Afghanistan.
Here are the statistics on those who gave their lives in this forgotten conflict:
Deaths by yearYear US Other Total
2001 12 0 12 (Rate of 52 a year)
2002 48 20 68
2003 48 9 57
2004 52 6 58
2005 99 31 130
2006 98 93 191
2007 60 59 119 (Rate of 210 a year)
Deaths by country (Notice all of the countries that Republicans love to bash)
US 417
Canada 66
UK 64
German 21
Spain 21
France 9
Italy 9
Netherlands 9
Denmark 4
Romania 4
Estonia 2
Norway 2
Sweden 2
Australia 1
Czech 1
Finland 1
Portugal 1
South Korea 1
http://www.icasualties.org/oef/Default.aspx