Does Anyone Care About the Forgotten War?: The Afghanistan Quagmire

Getting Worse:

"Coalition troops clashed with insurgents in two battles Saturday in fighting that left four U.S. and two Afghan soldiers dead and six other Americans wounded, officials said....The fighting was reported to be some of the heaviest in recent months and came as war-battered Afghanistan celebrated its independence day."

The Forgotten Deaths in Afghanistan:

"As of Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, at least 266 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department."

We are more interested in the false claims of a would be child killer.