Leon Panetta: There's a War in Afghanistan

Maybe tell the president instead of the press?

Neither Mitt Romney nor Paul Ryan mentioned the war in Afghanistan during their big running mate roll-out in Virginia Saturday.  Barack Obama gives it only a brief mention in his own stump speeches.

Leon Panetta seems to have had enough.

"I realize that there are a lot of other things going on around this country that can draw our attention, from the Olympics, to political campaigns to droughts, to some of the tragedies we've seen in communities around the country," the defense secretary said at Tuesday's Pentagon press briefing. "I thought it was important to remind the American people that there is a war going on."