Obama, Karzai try to project unity as new reports raise doubts

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Obama, Karzai try to project unity as new reports raise doubts
Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: May 12, 2010 07:33:18 PM

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought Wednesday to project a unified front on defeating the Taliban-led insurgency, acknowledging past differences but insisting that reports of tensions over corruption in Karzai's government and civilian deaths from U.S. military operations were overblown.

Speaking at a White House news conference with Karzai, Obama insisted that the U.S.-led military campaign is beginning to "reverse" the expansion of the insurgency and he urged Americans to have patience, warning that "there is going to be some hard fighting over the next couple of months."

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The administration has laid on the full red-carpet treatment for the Afghan leader in an effort to confine behind closed doors serious tensions over Karzai's failure to crack down on corruption throughout his government fueled by narcotics trafficking, his continued patronage of ethnic warlords and other issues.

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"There are days when we have definitely had a difference of opinion," said Karzai, speaking in English. "The bottom line is that we are much more strongly related to each other today than we ever were before."

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[Mari333]

1. more putrid PR for that insidious little puppet.

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2. Bullshit will only take you so far. nt

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[Bragi]

4. Obama Just Recapped Bush's Old Speeches

I heard the Presidents' newser on satellite radio. There was not a single sentence in Obama's statement that didn't repeat something said already by George W Bush.

How sad a policy is that.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Rummy shakes hands with Saddam decades ago - then they hung him

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after invading, occupying and laying waste to his country.

Watch out for the handshake Karzai