Afghan President Hamid Karzai has now arrived, and once again he is the best-dressed man in the room with his Cape of Many Colors. Unfortunately, our friends of 400 years (the Dutch) have turned off the sound for those of us in the press room. We are left to reading lips.
-Live from The Hague, at the international conference on Afghanistan
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