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Notion that it is time for a new chapter in afghan governments -- governance. the president detailed last night steps that had to be taken under the umbrella of the days of blank checks were over. and if president karzai is unable or unwilling to make changes in corruption or governance, that we will identify people at a sub-cabinet level, at a district level that can implement the types of services and basic governance without corruption that afghans need. i would say obviously president karzai in his inaugural speech said some encouraging things. there are obviously picks coming up for his c...

Up in the nine or 10 meetings that i was in. again, just to go through with the president said last night, as a result of the taliban- provided safe haven for al qaeda, 19 men hijacked four planes and murdered nearly three dozen people on september 11, 2001. >> the previous administration [inaudible] under control. are you going to keep referring to 9/11 as the basic cause? >> again, as was mentioned in the authorization to go into afghanistan, was as a result quite clearly the activities of al qaeda in a television- provided safe haven in afghanistan. that is why we are in afghanistan right n...