Dick Cheney tells Larry King what Hamid Karzai reported while on state visit in Washington

CNN LARRY KING LIVE BROADCAST | MAY 30, 2005 | Larry King Live

[CHARLITE]

Larry King aired a pre-taped interview with Vice President Dick Cheney on CNN this evening.

On one segment, Cheney said that during Hamid Karzai's state visit to Washington, the first repurcussions of the false Newsweek "Koran desecration" at Gitmo story were being acted out in various locations in Afghanistan.

Cheney quoted Karzai as having told him and President Bush that in Jalalabad in the northern part of his country, inflamed rioters attacked one of their own Afghan cultural centers and burned it to the ground.

Inside of the cultural center there had been over 400 especially fine copies of the Koran.

"They destroyed over 400 copies of the Koran," Cheney told Larry King, ".......all because of a false report that one copy of the Koran had been flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo."

Cheney then cracked his world famous wry, crooked smile and that segment ended!

[lawdude]

Radical arabs are a boil on the anus of the world!

[xrp]

Man, what a bunch of lunatics.

I don't get it. The Koran is not to be desecrated. Yet Muslims can desecrate the Koran.

Muslims are not to be killed. Yet Muslims can kill Muslims.

Someone please explain to me what I am failing to understand here!!

[KC_for_Freedom]

Clearly you are not muslim, hence unable to understand. But I can tell you it is the will of Allah. (PS, I'm not muslim either.)

[dufekin]

I can presume that it's not illegal (under Muslim jurisprudence) to destroy the Koran, but toilets (like swine) are "unclean;" therefore, the toilet causes the desecration. The famous "ask the imam" has a part in there about how anyone who reads the Koran while even sitting on the toilet is bound for perdition.

[weegee]

Putting a crucifix in a jar of urine and getting the American taxpayer to subsidize it (how much DOES it cost to do that, anyway?) is "free speech".

A rumored report from a terrorist alledging that a guard at a military institution put a koran in a toilet or flushed it down same toilet is an example of "hate speech".

Someone should ask those rioting muslims who it was that GAVE them korans in prison to begin with. How many imprisioned Christians are given acess to Bibles in Islamic prisons?

I don't mind giving imprisioned terror suspects korans while inprisoned but I would want to make them know that they are guaranteed religious freedom and are free to look at Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and other religious texts if they want. They will not be executed for the crime of converting away from Islam as they could be in their home countries.

[garyhope]

Insanity, paranoia, illusions, delusions, hatred, envy, stupidity, blindness, deafness, fear, more hatred and stupidity. I could go on and on.

[weegee]

Don't show them the toiletpaper koran, then. Bathroom reading with easy disposal.

[alwaysrepublican]

Exactly right.

[JimSEA]

Pretext

Every time a Mosque is bombed, Korans are destroyed. Whenever a market is bombed, Korans are burnt. However, when you hate enough, everything your enemy does is horrid and disgraceful.

[MountainDad]

I can "clearly" see what a joke "Islam" is!

[weegee]

After 9/11, the left asked "why do they hate us so?". Now the left's goal in life is to contribute to that hatred and instability at every turn.

[soloNYer]

One thing I don't understand: when will the average person figure out that radical Muslims worship power more than religion, that they hope to obtain that power by exploiting their religion, and that the western media is helping them by exploiting their grandstanding and false outrage...and then asks how should WE treat Them better? Just once, I'd love to see our idiot journalists analyze the fact that these radicals' signs are in perfectly printed English! Or how about a story or two on the Arab education system which teaches anti-American/anti-Israel slander as a curriculum?

I think our Democrat/liberal journalists and radical Muslims are after the same goal: power...and to get it they are using each other. The Democrats and journalists are tearing down Bush's policies on the WOT, and radical Muslims are using them as a mouthpiece for their cause. Sorry, I was just reading my local paper and got fired up.

[Zivasmate]

These people make wild beasts look tame.

These are not religious people who given one da*n about their Koran, they are lunatics looking for any excuse to cause mayhem anywhere they can.

[Brimack34]

But Mike Izzi said he did nothing wrong. And a bunch of conservatives backed him. Our side in the media have given him a pass and I object. That is why Rush stays away from the parties in Washington, He does not want to be corrupted.

[ZULU]

Why on God's earth is Vice President Cheney wasting his time with Larry King??

Larry King has the I.Q. of a retarded qumquat.

[america-rules]

"Why on God's earth is Vice President Cheney wasting his time with Larry King?? "

Because he's not speaking to Americans he's talking to the world and CNN is all over the world and Fox isn't!

[ZULU]

Then maybe he should be interviewed by the Pope.

Larry King is an idiot.

[CHARLITE]

"Because he's not speaking to Americans he's talking to the world and CNN is all over the world and Fox isn't!"

BINGO! Dick Cheney knows what he's doing.......and what he is saying.........and to WHOM!

I adore Dick Cheney! Nobody has a smile like his smile!

One day, I hope to see Cheney smiling down at the heads of Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar and Al Zarkawi packed in a box with dry ice, brought to him by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard Meyers!

Char :)

[rvoitier]

On FOX News Watch this weekend a listener made a good point; Have you ever tried to flush even a TV Guide down a toilet, much less a book the size of a Koran?

Take *THAT* msm.