Reuters: Don't Abandon Us Now, Afghanistan Urges World

[Hissyspit]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10665580.htm

Don't abandon us now, Afghanistan urges world
10 May 2005 13:21:24 GMT
Source: Reuters

STRASBOURG, France, May 10 (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai urged the world on Tuesday not to desert Afghanistan after polls last September because it would need aid and security assistance for years to come.

The parliamentary elections mark the end of the so-called Bonn Process, a U.N.-backed plan to help rebuild the poor Muslim state after the overthrow of the militant Taliban in 2001. Some 25,000 foreign troops, mostly American, remain on Afghan soil.

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Karzai warned stability remained under threat from insurgents and the existence of a huge opium-producing industry.

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He told a news briefing after the speech the Afghan people "wholeheartedly welcomed" international peacekeepers in their country as a sign the world remained committed to helping Afghanistan.

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[saigon68]

1. The MAYOR OF KABUL, like a Panhandler on the Street Corner

"Hey man, you got some change?" the beggar pleaded.

[rooboy]

2. Why doesn't he just ask the oil industry for a contribution?

after all, it's THEIR country.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. I remember distinctly, when we went in there, Tony Blair...

promising that never again would Afghanistan be abandoned.

[Roland99]

4. Hamid who?

[warrens]

5. Why? You don't have any fucking oil

And we've given up on that oil pipeline our big contributors were so hot for. What the fuck use are you to US? Fuck you. Sincerely, Dick Cheney

[Javaman]

6. The title should read...

Don't abandon us now! We like your money!

As soon as we pull the plug on the cash flow, be prepared for the taliban to make a surge back to power.

[BiggJawn]

7. He doesn't get it, does he?

C'mon, Hamid, pick up your $50 from the nightstand and get the hell out, you're stinkin' up the place!

Hope he still controls that corridor to the airport, along wwith the 6 blocks of downtown Kabul that he has. Sounds like he may need to make a getaway soon...

You'd think he would have figured it out after his last visit to DC where after the Photo-Op, nobody wanted to be anywhere near him.