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An Afghan mourns for relatives who other mourners say were killed by NATO forces during a raid in the Sayed Abad district of Wardak province west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)
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Storm clouds gather over the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Severe thunderstorms and windy condition are effecting the Washington Metro area today. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - This is a Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 file photo of soccer star and presidential candidate George Weah from the Congress for Democratic Change 'CDC' party seen at a press conference in the city of Monrovia, Liberia . The photos of George Weah's football past are rapidly disappearing from the walls of his seaside villa, replaced instead by academic paraphernalia and pictures of the Liberian goalscoring great with political figures. (AP Photo/File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS President Carter (right) chats with acting Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic (left) and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski at the White House on Feb. 7, 1977.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democrat, departs a federal courthouse in Washington on April 9, 1996, after pleading guilty to two counts of mail fraud. He was sternly told by a judge that he brought "a measure of disgrace" to Congress. Rostenkowski was immediately sentenced to 17 months in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.
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Linda McMahon chats with Scotty's Diner owner Scotty Vincent as she campaigns in North Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, the day after winning the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Connecticut. (AP Photo)
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U.S. Army Spc. Nicholas Fischer smokes as he stands guard in the Arghandab Valley of Afghanistan. A law, meant to deter smuggling and underage sales of tobacco through the mail, has blocked family and friends from shipping packages containing cigarettes to troops. (Associated Press)
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From top left; George W. Bush appears on NBC's "Deal or No Deal," Bill Clinton stops by the "Arsenio Hall Show" and President Barack Obama on "The View." (View photo ABC via Associated Press)
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FILE: A colonel in the Canadian Forces takes photos through the window of a civilian aircraft playing the role of a hijacked airliner as it is escorted by two Su-27 Russian fighter jets. (Associated Press)
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President Obama shakes hands with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk looks on after Mr. Obama signed the Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010 in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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U.S Air Force Physician-Mentor Capt. Michael Hampton, of the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, stands with an Afghan doctor discussing the treatment of an Afghan Army soldier with a gunshot wound to the neck, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. The names of the Afghan doctors are withheld for their protection. The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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An Afghan army soldier wheels a wounded fellow soldier into the ER at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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U.S Air Force Physician-Mentor Capt. Michael Hampton, right, of the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, stands with Afghan doctors discussing the x-ray of an Afghan soldier with a gunshot wound to the neck and face, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this image taken Saturday Aug. 7, 2010 U.S Air Force Physician-Mentor Capt. Michael Hampton, center left, and CRNA Maj. David Johnson, right, both of the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, stand with Afghan doctors discussing the condition and treatment of a wounded Afghan soldier, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, Afghan army doctors and medics prepare for emergency surgery on a wounded Afghan soldier, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The names of the Afghan doctors and medics are withheld for their protection. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 photo, U.S Air Force Capt. Denise Ross, left, a Nurse-Mentor from the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, assists an Afghan medic in trying to remove fluid from the lungs of Rubina, a severely-wounded young Afghan IED victim, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The names of Afghan doctors and medics are withheld for their protection.The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, Afghan army doctors and medics prepare for emergency surgery on a wounded Afghan soldier, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The names of the Afghan doctors are withheld for their protection. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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U.S. Air Force Medic-Mentor Master Sgt. LaTasha Carroway, of the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, plays "thumb war" with young recovering Afghan burn victim Abdul Rahman, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, U.S Air Force Mentor-CRNA Maj. David Johnson, center, of the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, helps manage dozens of Afghan army cadets he convinced to participate in a blood drive, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
