Bush to up troops in Afghanistan

Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President George W Bush promised to send more US troops into Afghanistan by year�s end. He conceded that June was a "tough month" in the nearly 7-year-old war. In fact, it was the ...

Bush conceded that June was a "tough month" in the nearly seven-year-old war, AP reported Thursday. "One reason why there have been more deaths is because our troops are taking the fight to a tough enemy, an enemy who doesn't like our presence there ...

Indeed, as noted by both the New York Times and the Washington Post Wednesday, June was the second month in a row in which U.S. deaths in Afghanistan approached the toll in Iraq. Twenty-eight U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan last month, just ...