Why are we fighting and dying to keep this POS in power?

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President HamidKarzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the United States of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave — an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as “categorically false.”

Mr. Karzai said two suicide bombings that killed 19 people on Saturday — one outside the AfghanDefense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in eastern Khost province — show the insurgent group is conducting attacks to help show that international forces will still be needed to keep the peace after their current combat mission ends in 2014.

“The explosions in Kabul and Khost yesterday showed that they are at the service of America and at the service of this phrase: 2014. They are trying to frighten us into thinking that if the foreigners are not in Afghanistan, we would be facing these sorts of incidents,” he said during a nationally televised speech about the state of Afghan women.

Gen. Joseph Dunford, the U.S. and NATO forces commander, said Mr. Karzai had never expressed such views to him, but Gen. Dunford said it was understandable that tensions would arise as the coalition balances the need to complete its mission and the Afghans‘ move to exercise more sovereignty.