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Stop backing mubarak. what side is the u.s. on? mubarak or the people in the streets? >> well, theres another choice. its the egyptian people. we are on the side as we have been for more than 30 years, of a democratic egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people. that respects the universal human rights of all egyptians. and that is the message that every ambassador, whether republican or democratic, president, everyone has conveyed for over 30 years. what happens is trul...

And the second is how do you grow a national army of 400,000 if you include national police in a country that does not have a tradition on of a national army? i asked general petraeus and general mcchrystal a year ago what was the largest national army that the afghan knees had before this. the answer was 80,000 to 90,000. those are two huge unknowns. we are a little bit prisoner of the unknowns in terms of moving to the point where we can move our people out. we need to reach the point to move ...

This is a process that takes time. it will demand courage and resilience. we will encounter increased violence as our combined security forces expand into taliban-controlled areas. increasingly, the momentum will shift to the afghan forces. over time, security responsibilities will transition to afghans. seeing clearly the challenges in front of us, i have confidence that our campaign plan will succeed. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon. id like to offer some brief comments myself to compl...

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Their spring offensive sunday, killing an afghan police chief and two other officer. now, in past years, spring has marked a significant upsurge in fighting between the taliban and nato forces, along with their local allies. its also a key test, as the international coalition is scheduled to hand over security responsibilities to afghan forces next year. meanwhile, though, a new report exposes tens of millions in ghost money thats flowed from the cia to the offices of afghanistans president. acc...

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Face the death penalty. on thursday in the continued fallout from those killings, americas military campaign in afghanistan suffered a double blow. in a rebuke to visiting u.s. defense secretary leon panetta, president hamid karzai demanded a pullback of nato troops fromville labels and rural areas and ask that the transfer of security responsibilities to afghan forces leading up to a complete withdrawal be sped up. in addition, the taliban suspended all talks with the united states thursday b...

>> well, its the egyptian people. we are on the side -- as we have been for more than 30 years -- of a democratic egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people, that respects the universal human rights of all egyptians. that is the message that every ambassador, whether republican or democratic president, everyone has conveyed for over 30 years. what happens is truly up to the egyptian people. and what the united states is doing is sending a very clear message. we wish to ...

Mubarak or the people in the streets? >> well, its the egyptian people. we are on the side -- as we have been for more than 30 years -- of a democratic egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people, that respects the universal human rights of all egyptians. that is the message that every ambassador, whether republican or democratic president, everyone has conveyed for over 30 years. what happens is truly up to the egyptian people. and what the united states is doing is sen...

Dimunition of power in afghanistan and how do we play in that? and how do you grow the national army if you include the national police in a country that does not have a national army? i asked general mcchrystal what the largest army the afghanis had and it was 80,000. so those are unknowns and we are a little bit prisoner of the unknowns in terms of moving to the point of moving the people out, and we need to reach the point to move the people out. we should not be an occupying force in that pa...