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Vice President's trip to Afghanistan
Vice President Dick Cheney and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai shake hands during a press availability at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai shake hands during a press availability at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004.
 
Prior to the inauguration of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, second on left, attend a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004. Vice President Dick Cheney and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai shake hands during a press availability at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai answer questions during a press availability at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004. Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, attend the swearing-in ceremony for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at Salaam Khana in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004. President Karzai is Afghanistan.s first democratically-elected president in Afghanistan's history. Also pictured, from left back, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Afghanistan Vice President Hedayat Amin Arsala, left front; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right.
President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is sworn in by Afghanistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Shinwari during President Karzai.s inauguration ceremony at Salaam Khana in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004. Vice President Dick Cheney participates in a bilateral meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 7. 2004. President Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically-elected president.
Vice President Dick Cheney shakes hands with newly-elected President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan before departing Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004. Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney flew to Afghanistan to attend the historic swearing-in ceremony of President Karzai.

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