OBAMA'S UNREALISTIC AFGHAN ASSUMPTIONS -- BY ELISE JORDAN, The Wall Street Journal

Before the surge, Iraq's Maliki also wasn't considered credible.

'The proof is not going to be in words, it's going to be in deeds." That is how the White House summed up what Barack Obama told Afghan President Hamid Karzai after a runoff election was called off recently, handing the Afghan leader a new term in office.

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