it s turning out to be the deadliest year of the u.s. encounter in afghanistan, so far, 316 people have been killed. americans, i believe, that s 316 americans have been killed. so far this year. we still have four-months to go in this year. the deadly vee lens continued yesterday and today. seven americans were killed yesterday, five more killed today in afghanistan. so we are beginning to achieve the surge levels that we want to achieve in afghanistan, the violence, of course, reaching a peak, and that was expected, and nobody likes it, of course, but it s part of the process, and everybody says we still have a ways to go. jon: steve centanni, live at the pentagon, thank you, steve. let s bring in the discuss, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general richard myers. general maars, both wars in iraq and afghanistan, well underway by the time you took over as chairman of the joint chiefs in, what, october 2005. but what gy ahead. actually, i took over in
i m writing my column tomorrow morning about this in the wall street journal. the more i dig into the president s budget proposal, the more outraged i am at the failure of leadership. look, we have had in the last couple of weeks two regimes trying to give up power temporarily. mumbarak said i will give up power to my vice president. obama says i m not going to be a participant in the budget debate. don t take this seriously. go look at the republicans. in each instance the motivation was the same. keep me in power. the president s budget is full of gym nicks. congress paul ryan pointed there is a chart s 2. take a look at it. and you look at the numbers. what it says is this, we are going to save $1.3 billion out of defense. because we re going to assume that we re going to fight afghanistan and iraq at surge levels for the next 10 years and oh, incidentally, we think we can begin drawing down the troops and that will save us $1.3 billion. wait a minute, or $1.3 trillion. wait a min
are going to look to aim to draw down in afghanistan. and, yet, they treat it as for the next 10 years we are going to be fighting in iraq and afghanistan at surge levels and then we are going to magically get savings. he says i m going to save $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. 1.3 trillion are coming from savings already built into the military budget at the planners of the pentagon already. bill: you say it s smoke in mirrors. $.6 trillion worth of real tax increases. and you get all the funny mondayy gimmicks out and it s got 104 budget savings over the next 10 years. bill: that s nothing. that s nothing. we re going to save that much in seven months of the fy 11 budget. he has $46 billion of spending built into his plan the day before he came into office, we were projected to spend $42 trillion over the next decade. bill: don t you get a headache with all of this? just listening to it my head is going bum bum bum bum bum. he is a big spender. you can get your head a