"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there." Barack Obama - 8/13/07THE FACT CHECK:
A check of the facts shows that Western forces have been killing civilians at a faster rate than the insurgents have been killing civilians.
The U.S. and NATO say they don't have civilian casualty figures, but The Associated Press has been keeping count based on figures from Afghan and international officials. Tracking civilian deaths is a difficult task because they often occur in remote and dangerous areas that are difficult to reach and verify.
As of Aug. 1, the AP count shows that while militants killed 231 civilians in attacks in 2007, Western forces killed 286. Another 20 were killed in crossfire that can't be attributed to one party.
Obama is not going to sugarcoat it for you Americans.
If you want lies and hyperbole about what's actually happening around the world you may want to listen to people like Bush, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, and avoid people like Barack Obama.
Here are more, more, more, more and more links just in case you think The Guardian didn't get it right.
Obama merely speaks the truth and if you can't handle the truth - Too bad.
