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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Doug R who wrote (436036)7/30/2003 4:56:30 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 769670
 
It isn't:

"SITUATION HAS IMPROVED"

"There is not a threat of major forces of the Taliban and al Qaeda threatening our forces or the Afghan government.

"That situation has improved since the spring and we expect that to be the situation as we go on into the winter."

U.S.-led troops are engaged mainly in the south and east of Afghanistan, where Taliban and al Qaeda militants are believed to be operating and moving with relative ease across the porous and remote Afghan-Pakistan frontier.

washingtonpost.com