Afghan leader thanks America

[Clay]

I just thought this was good to read:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/28/gen...ror/index.html


(CNN) -- Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai watched Monday as his country's flag was raised over the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington for the first time in five years.

The embassy had been shuttered during the reign of the Taliban, the former regime in Afghanistan that most of the international community did not recognize.

"This flag ... is raised not without costs," said Karzai, "without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan."

Karzai, the first Afghan leader to visit the United States in nearly 40 years, later met with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at the White House. (Full story/Karzai profile)

He thanked Bush and the American people for their continued support.

At a Rose Garden event with Karzai, Bush said the 158 al Qaeda and Taliban fighters being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would not be treated as prisoners of war. (Full story)

Bush said he was still considering the legal ramifications of whether the Geneva Conventions apply to the detainees, whom he described as killers.

"However I make my decision, these detainees will be well treated," Bush said. "We are not going to call them prisoners of war in either case and the reason why is al Qaeda is not a known military. These are killers, these are terrorists."

[TopTGP]

The only good the states is doing in Afghanistan is restoring their old way of life without the Taliban running everything... They're NEVER going to get Bin Laden, he's long gone, and I doubt he's dead. Chances are, he's living lavishly in South America or something like that.

[boneprone]

South America?

Wtf?

Oh well.

Lets Bomb em!