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Correction: CSP Wants Armed Services Hearing on Afghan Corruption

by: Dean Barker

Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 19:25:35 PM EDT
Correction: Carol's spox emails to note that WMUR may have painted with a too broad a brush.  The congresswoman is planning on seeking hearings on corruption in Afghanistan, not the war itself.

WMUR has more (including a video I can't find a way to embed) on Carol Shea-Porter's CODEL to Afghanistan we highlighted earlier:

Shea-Porter said she believes the United States should scrap the idea of nation-building and focus on going after the enemy.

"We are at the point now where I think this is, in my opinion, too large a footprint," she said.

Shea-Porter said she plans to call for hearings before the Armed Services Committee to discuss the future of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.

But do click the link, because there is more there on what appears to be basically a loss of confidence on her part of Hamid Karzai.

UPDATE: Found it on YT:
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...not that she needed to...why she is my absolute favorite national office holder.  We need to get out of Afghanistan, and the current policy is counterproductive and keeps us there longer.  Carol Shea-Porter for President in 2016!
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For meat, follow the link.

Special Briefing On Upcoming Kabul Conference

Richard Holbrooke
Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Washington, DC

July 13, 2010

MR. CROWLEY: Good afternoon and welcome to the Department of State. As we do from time to time, when Ambassador Richard Holbrooke has traveled to the region, we bring him back down to kind of use -- review of his meetings to kind of give you a sense of where we are in terms of our policies and actions in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

We also know that the Secretary's getting ready to travel, and we'll have more to say about the particulars of her travel later this week. Clearly, a major element of her travel will be participation in the Kabul Conference next week. So this is not really a trip briefing, per se. If it's a trip briefing, it's really about Richard's travel over the past couple of weeks.

He was in Pakistan and took stock with the Pakistani officials of the various 13 working groups that we have as part of the Pakistani Strategic Dialogue. He was in Afghanistan working on some of the policy issues that will be a part of the Kabul Conference. He's got some - his own travel, in addition, coming up in the next week or two. So - but with that, we thought we'd bring Richard back in and kind of give you a sense of where we think we are in terms of our Af-Pak strategy.



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