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1728 US troops have died in Afghanistan since October 7, 2001, with 1153 of those deaths having occurred since President Obama's inauguration. 575 US troops died in Afghanistan during President Bush's term in office.

Colin Kahl, a national security official in the Obama administration, disputed Spicer’s description of the planning Thursday evening. Kahl, in tweets shared hundreds of times, said that the Defense Department worked up a general proposal that asked for the authorities to do raids in Yemen, but that the mission carried out Saturday was not specifically a part of that. Obama did not make any decisions because he thought it represented an expansion of the war in Yemen and believed the Trump administration should assess how to proceed, Kahl said.

Some Yemen facts:
DoD worked up GENERAL proposal for OVERALL set of expanded authorities for these types of raids at end of Obama admin.
The broad package was discussed in the interagency in the closing weeks of the Obama term. This particular raid was NOT discussed.
Moreover n<o recommendation was made other than a recommendation to provide the next Administration with the necessary information.
Idea was for next team to run a deliberative process to assess risks.
And, critically, Obama made no decisions on this before leaving office, believing it represented escalation of U.S. involvement in Yemen
And therefore should not be something he decided a few days before leaving office. Obama thought the next team should take a careful look.
And run a careful process. From what I've read and heard, however, team Trump didn't do a careful vetting of the overall proposal or raid
Instead, Trump apparently had dinner with Mattis/Dunford and greenlit the op. I've heard there was a Deputies meeting the next day, but...
DC was brief and basically irrelevant since the decision had been made the night before.
So, in a nutshell, Trump and his team owns the process and the ultimate decision--and the consequences.