Afghanistan ? Nancy Pelosi got a firsthand look at Afghanistan on Sunday. Not a bad idea, considering President Bush’s latest budget request.

The House speaker met with Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai, shown together above, a week after the Bush administration announced plans to ask Congress for $10.6 billion for Afghanistan.

Karzai stressed his desire for increased training and equipment for Afghanistan’s fledgling army and police forces. That’s according to an Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information publicly.

Pelosi led a delegation of six other congressional Democrats to Afghanistan to meet with military and government leaders after traveling to Iraq and Pakistan.

The Pentagon last week said a brigade of U.S. soldiers would stay in Afghanistan four months longer than planned – an effective troop increase of 3,200 soldiers.