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On the recordNovember 10, 2009
this is clearly something that the president still does not feel satisfied that he has a working partner in Hamid Karzai.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama expresses concerns about the credibility of the Afghan government under Hamid Karzai.

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