Posted on 04/03/2011 8:59:32 AM PDT by kristinn
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"This was a surprise," Gen. Petraeus said. The Quran burning in Florida, he added, was "hateful, extremely disrespectful and enormously intolerant."
Gen. Petraeus, U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and other Western envoys Sunday met President Hamid Karzai to discuss the security crisis caused by the Florida incident. While Gen. Petraeus said he had no doubt that Mr. Karzai is taking the situation seriously, some Western officials have complained that the Afghan president himself has exacerbated the tensions with his pronouncements on the issue.
Most Afghans learned about the Quran burning in Florida only when Mr. Karzai on March 24 condemned the act as "a crime against the religion and the entire Muslim nation," called on the U.S. and the U.N. to bring the perpetrators to justice and demanded "a satisfactory response to the resentment and anger of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world."
Following Sunday's meeting with Gen. Petraeus and the ambassadors, Mr. Karzai requested in a new statement that "the U.S. government, Senate and Congress clearly condemn [Rev. Jones'] dire action and avoid such incidents in the future." Mr. Karzai issued this demand even though President Barack Obama has already described the Quran burning as "an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry"—adding that "to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity."
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"We cannot see the difference between that man in Florida and the American soldiers here," said Karimullah, a 25-year-old religious student who, like many Afghans, goes by one name and took part in Sunday's Kandahar protests. "They are killing our people here while in the U.S. they burn the Holy Quran. America just wants to humiliate the Muslim world."
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Get out now and carpetbomb them on the way out.
Let’s just go ahead and nuke Karzai’s country from one end to the other and be done with this world’s most useless country.
NUTS
Obama can issue the apology, why congress?
OK. When are the Imams going to apologize for beheading our guys?
"Carpetbomb" a rural, tribal, semi-nomadic people?
The survivors will spit at your childish pique and do everything they can to take revenge, for hundreds of years.
where’s Saudi Arabia’s apology for burning bibles
where’s Saudi Arabia’s apology for burning bibles
Petraeus and Bam Bam need to inform the rest of the world that the USA is a free country. They have no control over what other people do. Tell the Muzzies to try it. Quit using a fake religion to rationalize killing people.
He's right however it also provides another service in as it shows those extremists supporting the Koran as the thugs they really are.
He is absolutely right, just imagine what the US soldiers have to deal with now as they go from village to village, not that they had it easy to begin with. No matter why we went there, we need to declare victory or admit defeat and get the h#$% out of there.
General Dhimmi Petraeus. Where is the outrage at Muslim countries regularly destroy bibles. Why do our officials first think of limiting free speech instead of (A) Pointing out the hypocrisy and (B) Defending our 1st Amendment?
I have an idea, next time they rampage, mow the MoFos down.....bet it won’t happen again, even if 10,000 Korans are burned.
They never would have even heard of this Pastor, if Petraeus given them the publicity in the first place.
Old Karzai's trying to play both sides against the middle - two minutes after we leave afghanistan he'll be swing from a telegraph pole.
Burn Karzai. With his koran. And throw the filthy Betrayus in jail.
My son is over there and he has to have daily contact with the Afghan people. I think he is in even more danger now.
“Most Afghans learned about the Quran burning in Florida only when Mr. Karzai on March 24 condemned the act as “a crime against the religion and the entire Muslim nation,”
To a man or leader supposed to be interested in the stability of his own country, he is a total idiot for even mentioning something like this in a speech. What did he think was going to happen after he mentioned it?
Now he is upset about the violence over this incident? Screw this corrupt bastard. Enough American lives have been shed in this hellhole he runs to illustrate our commitment to that country without his theatrics about wanting an apology.
We pull out of there and he’s dog meat within 24 hours.
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