Bush and UNOCAL Karzai vow to finish off Taliban - Gonna smoke 'em out

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Bush_and_Karzai_vow_to_finish_off_Taliban.html?siteSect=143&sid=8080852&cKey=1186423644000&ty=ti

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed on Monday to finish off the Taliban, which Karzai said was a defeated force that attacks civilians but is not a threat to his government.

Karzai, visiting the United States amid renewed concern about worsening violence in Afghanistan and the threat from militant hide-outs across the border in Pakistan, said he was building up his army and police with U.S. help.

"Our enemy is still there, defeated but still hiding in the mountains. And our duty is to complete the job, to get them out of their hide-outs in the mountains," he said in the second day of meetings with Bush at the Camp David presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains.

Bush, who has been on the defensive about find al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said he was confident U.S. and Pakistani forces would track down the militant group's leaders.

But he stopped short of saying whether the United States would seek Pakistan's permission before going after those militants. The subject is a sensitive issue in Islamabad.

[Canuckistanian]

1. And how is UNOCAL Karzai going to achieve this?

He's in control of nothing. His proper term is "Mayor of Kabul" for all his influence.

[Alcibiades]

2. "a defeated force that attacks civilians but is not a threat to his government"

Famous last words. What a bonehead.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Karzai was singing a different tune before meeting with Bush

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/06/MNQ5RDFHG1.DTL&feed=rss.news

Two days ago, Karzai said the security situation in Afghanistan had "definitely deteriorated." He made it sound like the country was on the brink of a complete meltdown. I wonder what the Chimp did to him to make him change his tune and say that the Taliban are now kaput.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. What are they waiting for? Hasn't it been 6 years?

My how time flies when your having fun!

[blues90]

4. They are NEVER going to defeat Afghanistan

No matter what they do . Never , it's all about their pipe line from the caspian sea .

[dkofos]

5. The only thing they are going to smoke is some good Afgani HASH!!