Leon Panetta: There May Be Less Than 50 Al Qaeda Fighters In Afghanistan

Congressman Jim McGovern sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi requesting that she hold off on war funding.



McGovern and Gerry Nadler were on Hardball on Friday, asking, "What's the strategy and the goal in Afghanistan?":



CONGRESSMAN GERALD NADLER: We originally went into Afghanistan because we said that Al Qaeda has base camps from which they are planning attacks on the US, we ought to get rid of those base camps, we ought to eliminate them. We did. We said, "All right, the Taliban were helping Al Qaeda, we punish them". But now the mission seems to have morphed into, "We have to remake the government of Afghanistan, we have to put it on a solid footing, we have to get its writ to run in the whole country", which no government in Kabul has ever been able to do, "We have to remake the whole government". That is beyond our capability and, frankly, it's none of our business.



Watch the entire interview with congressmen Nadler and McGovern - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfSesefM0o
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