OSLO (Reuters) - Donor nations promised Afghanistan $1.24 billion Wednesday to help rebuild the war-wrecked country in 2003 with projects ranging from roads to educating girls barred from schools by the ousted Taliban regime. Afghanistan's government expressed hopes after a two-day meeting of 23 nations in Oslo that pledges would be kept even if the United States went to war against Iraq and distracted world attention and aid from Kabul. "We feel that the international community is committed to us," Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai told a news conference after the meeting, when asked if Iraq might overshadow Afghanistan....