Bush hails occupation of Afghanistan as "great achievement"
Mercury News
09/29/06
Amid signs that the Taliban insurgency is regaining strength, President Bush on Friday defended his efforts to stabilize war-savaged Afghanistan and blasted critics who charge that his policies there are failing. Afghanistan is reeling from its worst bloodshed since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention as the Taliban and allied warlords tie down 42,000 American and NATO-led troops and President Hamid Karzai struggles with colossal corruption, record opium production and nose-diving popularity.In his most extensive remarks on Afghanistan recently, Bush sought to accentuate the positive...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15642585.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
09/29/06
Amid signs that the Taliban insurgency is regaining strength, President Bush on Friday defended his efforts to stabilize war-savaged Afghanistan and blasted critics who charge that his policies there are failing. Afghanistan is reeling from its worst bloodshed since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention as the Taliban and allied warlords tie down 42,000 American and NATO-led troops and President Hamid Karzai struggles with colossal corruption, record opium production and nose-diving popularity.In his most extensive remarks on Afghanistan recently, Bush sought to accentuate the positive...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15642585.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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