Thursday, December 04, 2003
Dude. I am so much more a warlord than you will ever be....
Among his peers:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search) met with the two main warlords of northern Afghanistan on Thursday and said he is satisfied that they have begun disarming — if more slowly than some had hoped.
Rumsfeld met with Abdul Rashid Dostum (search) and Atta Mohammed (search), whose armies remain in conflict, at a dusty compound used by the British army as headquarters for a civil-military reconstruction project where they are working to improve security and calm tensions between rival factions.
Afterward, at a joint news conference, Rumsfeld said he told Dostum and Mohammed that the United States thinks their disarmament is "an important step for this country."
This time though, Rumsfeld didn't have his picture taken with the warlords just in case everything turns to shit and they turn on us, as you know they inevitably will. Like high school yearbook pictures these things have a way of coming back and haunting you.
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