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Article: A Piecemeal Operation.(Afghanistan)
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- August 20, 2007
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"As White House officials put together plans in the spring of 2003 for Bush to land on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and declare the end of major combat operations in Iraq, the Pentagon decided to make a similar, if less dramatic, announcement for Afghanistan. On May 1, hours before Bush stood beneath a 'Mission Accomplished' banner, Rumsfeld appeared at a news conference with Karzai in Kabul's threadbare 19th-century presidential palace. 'We clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period of stability and stabilization and reconstruction activities', he said. 'The bulk of the country today is permissive, it's secure'.
"The ...