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Bush: Corruption, poor leadership impair Afghan police training
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush admitted Friday that "corruption and substandard leadership" have hampered efforts to train Afghanistan's 46,000-member police force, in sharp contrast to the war-torn nation's flourishing army.

Bush said Afghan President Hamid Karzai will announce a new leader of the nation's police by year's end. Meanwhile, he praised Afghanistan's armed forces, which consists of 30,000 active troops and several thousand more training in Kabul. Some are serving alongside the 41,000 coalition troops -- including more than 21,000 U.S. servicemen -- now in the country.

"Afghans in uniform are determined to protect their nation and fight our common enemies," Bush told members of the Reserve Officers Association, a 75,000-member group consisting of officers, former officers and spouses of uniformed services, primarily the Reserve and National Guard.

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