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with president karzai while he s there? reporter: we don t have any reports about that right now. as you know the obama administration s relationship with president karzai has been quite strained because karzai has refused to sign the security agreement which would essentially have set those troop levels. the administration is hoping the next president who takes over in afghanistan will do that. there s no reports president obama is planning to meet with president karzai, but i wouldn t rule this out. he just landed in afghanistan. the white house has to keep these types of things under wraps because of the president s security, of course, that being of the utmost concern. this is something we have seen this president do in the past and president george w. bush visited with troops in afghanistan. made a surprise visit.
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thousands of polling places, and yet billions of afghans lined up to cast their ballot, and next month s runoff is going to be another step towards the first democratic transfer of power in the history of this nation. that is a tribute to the can courage and determination of the people of afghanistan, but it is also a tribute to you and the sacrifices of so many americans and our coalition partners, everything that you have done over the years. we we know that this progress has come at a heavy price. tomorrow s memorial day. and the bases here at afghanistan and the towns across america, we will pause and we will pay tribute to the all those who have laid down their lives for our free doom. freedom dom, and that includes nearly 2,200 american patriots who made the last sacrifice of full devotion right
time out of his busy schedule to visit the troops, the troops will appreciate that. colonel jack, this wednesday president obama will give the commencement address at west point. you and i have taught there. what do you think he ll say this wednesday? it s an expectation he s going to make a significant policy address. it s not just going be the platitudes and thanks for jour service. these are tough times and we re really relying downand thanks for wearing the uniform and all that kind of stuff. he s going to say some things of substance. it would be an interesting time to do that since he s just will have just returned from afghanistan because there s a great deal of discussion just about everywhere about what we re going to do about that area of the world. it s not just a question of whether we ll have 5,000 or 10,000, probably not going to have a whole lot more than that, but what they re actually going