msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
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President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline to end the war in Afghanistan.
latimes.com - 11/24/2008
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq
-- Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to
send thousands of additional combat troops to Afghanistan to wage aggressive warfare against the Taliban that they expect could take years. The Marines ...
(more)
Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/29/2008
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George W. Bush said he wants to be
remembered as a president who "did not sell his
soul in order to accommodate the political process."
(more)
Bush Weighs In on His Legacy
telegraph.co.uk - 11/27/2008
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Karzai calls for withdrawal timeline for Afghanistan.
Think Progress —
... Today, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation that the international community should set a date to end the war in Afghanistan. “If there is no deadline, we have the right to find another solution for peace and security, which is negotiations,” Karzai reportedly said. Spencer Ackerman notes, “One thing that’s been entirely missing from the policy debate on Afghanistan — in the U.S., in NATO, in Afghanistan — is that no one even pretends to think about how the war is supposed to end. ...
Into Afghanistan?
Ben Smith's Blog —
Hamid Karzai seems not to be co-operating with American plants to ramp up involvement in Afghanistan:
President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline to end the war in Afghanistan.
It appeared to be the first time Karzai has called for a time limit on the international effort to defeat Taliban militants and raise a stable and competent Afghan security force and government.
"If there is no deadline, we have the right to find another solution for peace and ...
You Ain’t Gotta Go Home But You Gotta Get The Hell Up Outta Here
Firedoglake —
... That's basically what Hamid Karzai just told the U.S., for real. To call this unexpected is really quite an understatement. From the Associated Press: ...
Doing A Maliki: Karzai Demands Timetable In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com —
... Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for a timetable to end the occupation of Afghanistan by Western forces or if not , that the West must accept negotiations with the Taliban to end bloodshed there. ...
Doing a Maliki: Karzai Demands Timetable In Afghanistan
Crooks and Liars —
... Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for a timetable to end the occupation of Afghanistan by Western forces or if not, said that the West must accept negotiations with the Taliban to end bloodshed there. ...
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dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there. Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
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thewashingtonnote.com 12/14/2008 —
I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America's next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
To be blunt, they have been arguing that "Iraq was the ...
Getting Afghanistan Right
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nydailynews.com 1/27/2009 — DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, January 26th 2009, 1:12 AM Relations between the new Obama administration and Afghanistan didn't get off to a good start Sunday when Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily condemned a U.S. operation that he said killed ...
Big bucks being spent in final Senate race —
CNN Political Ticker 11/25/2008
One of Georgia Democrat Jim Martin's ads bears a striking resemblance to an earlier ad by the Obama campaign.
(CNN) — It's been less than three weeks, but more than $4 million has already been spent on the airing of campaign commercials ...
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