Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan
President Bush gestures during remarks on the upcoming G-8 summit in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year’s end. He conceded that June was a ‘‘tough month’’ in the nearly seven-year-old war.
In fact, it was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the conflict began.
‘‘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 because they don’t like the idea of America denying safe haven (to terrorists),’’ Bush told reporters. ‘‘Of course there’s going to be resistance.’’
Bush said it was a tough month too for the Taliban. But the once-toppled Islamist regime in Afghanistan has now rebounded with deadly force.
More U.S. and NATO troops have died in the past two months in Afghanistan than in Iraq, a place with triple the number of U.S. and coalition forces.
In June, 28 U.S. troops di
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