Afghanistan: The last thing we want to do is shoot
Canada.com
President Hamid Karzai is a strong leader who is revered by his people and fully supports the international coalition's campaign against the Taliban, Canada's top military leader in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
Brig.-Gen. David Fraser had just returned from meetings with Karzai in Kabul, where the president is under growing criticism at home and abroad over the increasingly violent insurgency and government corruption.
Fraser said he got a different impression of the president as they met to discuss the coalition's military operations in Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces.
"He (Karzai) is an incredibly charismatic man who is passionate about this country. He is a great leader who meets with elders all the time," said Fraser, the commander of the coalition's multinational brigade.
"He still has the full support of the people down here. He is revered as a great leader for Afghanistan and I can't say enough about him. He is just quite a remarkable man."
.... "I had a chance to talk with the president himself and went over what we are here to do to support him," Fraser said.
"We are well within what he wants us to do - which is to support him in his vision of establishing an Islamic republic. We're doing it. I told the president the last thing we want to do is shoot."Read more
db: That squared Karzai, now let's get on with the killin'.
President Hamid Karzai is a strong leader who is revered by his people and fully supports the international coalition's campaign against the Taliban, Canada's top military leader in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
Brig.-Gen. David Fraser had just returned from meetings with Karzai in Kabul, where the president is under growing criticism at home and abroad over the increasingly violent insurgency and government corruption.
Fraser said he got a different impression of the president as they met to discuss the coalition's military operations in Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces.
"He (Karzai) is an incredibly charismatic man who is passionate about this country. He is a great leader who meets with elders all the time," said Fraser, the commander of the coalition's multinational brigade.
"He still has the full support of the people down here. He is revered as a great leader for Afghanistan and I can't say enough about him. He is just quite a remarkable man."
.... "I had a chance to talk with the president himself and went over what we are here to do to support him," Fraser said.
"We are well within what he wants us to do - which is to support him in his vision of establishing an Islamic republic. We're doing it. I told the president the last thing we want to do is shoot."Read more
db: That squared Karzai, now let's get on with the killin'.
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