Canadian Help?

CNN acts like the US has not been in Afghanistan, just how out of touch are they that they think the US military has not been there from the beginning.

"As U.S. troops begin increased deployments to Afghanistan, the United States can look to its northern neighbor for insights on the frontlines and the home front."

It goes on to say that Canada increased its number of troops last year 2,800 and have had 117 soldiers killed there. The article also says that Canada has invested $1.2 billion dollars there. I don't know how many US soldiers that have been there, but the fact that the US announced that it was sending an additional 30,000 troops tells me that there is more than Canada's 2,800. The US have had 608 KIA in Afghanistan as of October 2008. There should be no surprise that the number of US soldiers that die per year started to rise as soon as we started turning sectors that the US had previously secured over to other countries for security.