mr. karzai and his government and the parliament of the people of afghanistan. i'm not saying that this is the actual case but this is the perception of the people of afghanistan. and that needs to be changed. >> charlie: the dilemma for the united states and the nato countries is that essentially they have targeted 2014 at which time of again governments will reach a point where they can withdraw, correct? >> that's right. that's this target. >> charlie: that's this target. hamid karzai will be president until 2014. and he's going to be mainly responsible for the government. so it's a huge dilemma, is it not? >> that's right. he will be the president until 2014. as i mentioned earlier, i'm pretty sure that he will make attempts in order to stay beyond 2014. according to the constitution of afghanistan, you can't do that, but he might just create an urgency situation or resorting to emergency provisions in the constitution. but at the same time, his failure to deliver to the people of afghanistan, to bring good governments, to fight against corruption, that had

mr karzai. that is can get pretty ugly and has actually. we just have a minute a half or so i'm curious your take. first of all is it possible that in libya right now we're arming the next to some of it by taking sides in this thing and and well let me just as that person well the concern is who who make up the rebel forces there have been there been intelligence reports and captured documents from iraq showing that that al qaeda had a very big success rate in recruiting people from eastern libya they became the capital the largest number of suicide bombers used against american forces in iraq so the question becomes is that element part of the rebel army opposing could offer you and so the united states is a little concerned that it may repeat what happened in afghanistan by by supporting people we don't know and they turn out to be you know we're just very quickly your thoughts on terry jones the kill squads the you know with the stuff that's going on in afghanistan right now or is this a symptom of ten years of occupation time for us to

mr. karzai, who i believe added to the fuel there by insisting that the man who burned the koran should have been prosecuted. well, under american law he should not be prosecuted. it is part of the first amendment. but what is most appalling is that people purported in the name of religion, then, not to do anything against that individual and that would have been unjustified. i'm not suggesting there is any justification for any violence against him. but violence against people in afghanistan employs the united nations there for humanitarian reasons other citizens of western countries, for them to have been assaulted and murdered by people purporting to be acting in the name of religion, that is the true outrage. and i hope people will resist any temptation even to equate the two. an act of stupid and offensive bigotry against a book should be criticized. murder of innocent people in the name of a religion and it's particularly ironic that the people who committed these murders claim to be vindicating their religion. no denegation of a religion can be -- if i were to be asked, what did i thi

mr. karzai talked about getting rid of 300 corrupt ngos he didn't have you in mind. they're ngos and ngos and that's one of the things we do need to highlight or think about how you guys do a price to what we do about those others because that is not been mentioned at all. but i have a couple of questions about your relationships with the military. one of the messages that has come under fire testimonies, including yours, mr. kohl is the military doesn't get it right. he doesn't understand sustainability. it is in for a short-term result and there's a second message sometimes subliminal and sometimes explicit that you really don't want to have too much to do with them and need rather stay neutral. so i have a couple questions. you've all been in afghanistan apart from obvious the institute of peace for a long time. and you can access you claim a usenet the needs of the communities. but until 2001, you were getting ready far. obviously, you weren't under the taliban. it was only when the united dates in particular came in and the taliban was overthrown to do it much m

mr. karzai talked about getting rid of, i think, it's 300 corrupt ngos, he didn't have you in mind.here are ngos, and there are ngos, and that's one of the things we do need to highlight and think about how you guys do it right and what we do about those others. because that has not been mentioned at all. but i have a couple of questions about your relationships with the military. one of the messages that's come out of all your testimonies, including yours, ms. cole, is that the military doesn't really get it right. it doesn't really understand sustainability, it's in for short-term results, and there's a second message -- sometimes it's been subliminal, sometimes it's been explicit -- that you don't really want to have too much to do with them, that you'd rather stay neutral. so i have a couple questions. you've all been in afghanistan apart from, obviously, institute of peace, for a long time. and you've had access, you claim, and you've met the need of the communities. but until 2001 you weren't getting very far. obviously, you weren't under the taliban. and it was only when the

mr. speaker, karzai one day he likes american troops being over there, the next day he doesn't like the american troops being there. in fact, in december, 2010 in the "washington post," i quote him, i'll paraphrase this, karzai said to general petraeus, he said i have three main enemies, the taliban, the americans, and the international community. if i had to choose a friend today -- again, this is the president of afghanistan, i would choose the taliban. they are the ones killing americans and blowing their legs off and their arms off. how much longer does this have to go on? i say to my colleagues in both parties, join representative kucinich and ron paul and myself and many others, let's bring our troops home. i have a photograph here, mr. speaker, that was in the rally north carolina paper about a year ago. -- raleigh, north carolina paper about a year ago. this is a young army sergeant. his legs are gone. they have been blown off. his right arm has been blown off. and he has a left arm. he's what he they call a triple am amputee. his lovely wife is there pushing the wheelchair. mr. speaker,