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   ....lives [1]in Afghanistan. Listen to President Bush's and Afghan
   President Hamid Karzai's responses to a question from one of the most
   biased "reporters" in the AP. The Whitehouse website has the
   transcript.

     Q Thank you, sir. Even after hearing that one of the major
     conclusions of the National Intelligence Estimate in April was that
     the Iraq war has fueled terror growth around the world, why have
     you continued to say that the Iraq war has made this country safer?
     And to President Karzai, if I might, what do you think of President
     Musharraf's comments that you need to get to know your own country
     better when you're talking about where terror threats and the
     Taliban threat is coming from?

   Karzai's response is incredible.

     PRESIDENT KARZAI: Ma'am, before I go to remarks by my brother,
     President Musharraf, terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or
     September 11th. The President mentioned some examples of it. These
     extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around for
     years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children,
     uprooting vineyards, with vine trees, grapes hanging on them,
     forcing populations to poverty and misery.
     They came to America on September 11th, but they were attacking you
     before September 11th in other parts of the world. We are a witness
     in Afghanistan to what they are and how they can hurt. You are a
     witness in New York. Do you forget people jumping off the 80th
     floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what
     it will be for a man or a woman to jump off that high? Who did
     that? And where are they now? And how do we fight them, how do we
     get rid of them, other than going after them? Should we wait for
     them to come and kill us again? That's why we need more action
     around the world, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to get them
     defeated -- extremism, their allies, terrorists and the like.
     On the remarks of my brother, President Musharraf, Afghanistan is a
     country that is emerging out of so many years of war and
     destruction, and occupation by terrorism and misery that they've
     brought to us. We lost almost two generations to the lack of
     education. And those who were educated before that are now older.
     We know our problems. We have difficulties. But Afghanistan also
     knows where the problem is -- in extremism, in madrassas preaching
     hatred, preachers in the name of madrassas preaching hatred. That's
     what we should do together to stop.
     The United States, as our ally, is helping both countries. And I
     think it is very important that we have more dedication and more
     intense work with sincerity, all of us, to get rid of the problems
     that we have around the world.

   There is almost a dumbfounded tone to Karzai's answer, as if he cannot
   believe anyone would ask such a stupid question.
   He should spend more time in America. We have lots of stupid people
   here.

References

   1. http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/26/must-see-video-karzai-responds-to-reporters-question-about-terrorism/