Posted on 09/26/2006 7:22:56 PM PDT by jdm
LONDON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday the resurgence of the Taliban and growth of the poppy harvest in Afghanistan are signs there are insufficient coalition troops in the country.
Clinton also said the global hunt for al-Qaida leaders must be intensified and warned that fighting terrorism through military methods alone carried a risk of encouraging people to turn to extremism.
''There are not enough troops to serve the country (Afghanistan),'' he told an audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. The United States has 21,000 troops in the country, and NATO has about 20,000 there.
Afghanistan has been suffering its heaviest insurgent attacks since the Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001 in a U.S.-led war. Also opium production in Afghanistan has boomed since 2001. Last year, more than 4,500 tons of opium were harvested, about 90 percent of the world supply.
Securing good government in Afghanistan and tracking al-Qaida suspects were the two global priorities today, he said.
''I think it is important that the fight against terror secures a genuine Muslim democracy in Afghanistan and that we intensify the hunt for the leaders of al-Qaida, because they are still by far the most dangerous global network with global targets,'' Clinton said.
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Bill--get off the stage. You're becoming pathological.
STFU Bill. You had your chance.
Gawd! I hate this man...why doesn't he just go away!
He put the "ass" in "no class".
STFU, Slick Willie!!
Rhetorical: why wasn't he smart military mind during his time in the White House?
Sure is more troops there now than when he was in office.
Bill Clinton needs more cowbell.
I so wish that creatin would shut up and evaporate into obscurity. Oh how I hate those clintons.
Clinton, the worst man ever to be President, is now sounding like Carter, the worst President ever. What a pair----the "legacy twins"!
LOL
I really do hope Slick Willie continues to speak up all the way to mid-term elections. He has messed with a hornet's nest and it is very angry. The angrier it gets the more he continues to talk. The Dems will get stung in this election in a big way and Slick Willie will again be Republicans best friend.
''I think it is important that the fight against terror secures a genuine Muslim democracy in Afghanistan and that we intensify the hunt for the leaders of al-Qaida, because they are still by far the most dangerous global network with global targets,'' Clinton said.
The former president said he did not believe Iran's nuclear program was the world's most critical problem. Rather, he said, it was the risk of terrorists acting independently of nations and their potential ability to access nuclear weapons."
UNBELIEVABLE....He apparently believes in Democracy in Afghanistan..but does not believe in it when it comes to Iraq!! He also does not believe that a nuclear bomb in the hands of a mad regime in Iran poses any danger to the greater earth!! Except..if they decide to give the bomb to terorists....DUHHHHHHH!!!!
Let the Russians send in about 40,000.
Hey, they're Bill Clinton's friends. Can't he ask?
"I'm too busy to be pointing fingers!" HAHAHAHA
Slick Willie is sure having a hard time remembering he isn't the President any longer. Of course the more he opens his mouth the bigger a$$ he makes of himself so I say give him more air time.
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