09/14/2005
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"NATO's open door must be real, not just theoretical."
"That's what binds all of what we do -- Afghanistan, the training of Iraqis, the support to the African Union."
"The fact that they had already had a good meeting together, felt like it negated the purpose to doing so."
"Afghanistan was almost a bit of a testing ground for some of these things."