Flashback to 2008: Bush apologizesto Iraq for koran shooting

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[jeltz25]

BAGHDAD (AFP) — US President George W. Bush has apologised to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over the shooting of a Koran by an American soldier near Baghdad, state television announced on Tuesday. "The prime minister received an apology from US President George W. Bush on the incident of shooting of a Koran by a US soldier," Al-Iraqia television said.

US military authorities in Iraq have apologised to the local community west of Baghdad where the staff sergeant fired at the Koran during shooting practice on May 11.

[jeltz25]

Another flashback. A very similar incident to the one that just happened. Bush did the same as Obama and apologized.

Personally, I think they were both wrong. But I'm just pointing out that Obama isn't exactly doing anything new here. He's just following in Bush's lead.

If you look at the thread a number of freepers did criticize Bush for apolgizing.

Frankly, I think both Bush and Obama have been too soft on Islam and neither of them really understands the connections between Islam and terrorism nad the threat it poses. Or, let me corretc that. I think they both do understand it but for political reasons they don't do anything about it and pretend it doesn't exist.

[tobyhill]

While I don’t think either should have apologized, there is a difference in incidents.

[mkjessup]

GWB was doing the same thing to Muslims that he did to 'Rats in the Congress, he thought if he was 'nice' to them, and offered apologies and what-not, that they would 'like' him.

He forgot (or never realized) that these are the very same bastards that murdered Daniel Pearl by decapitation.

The only apologies we should be offering to Islam are apologies attached to a BLU-82B.

LOTS of apologies.

[MNJohnnie]

YAWN..yet another Leftist clown posting “Bush’s fault” spam. Don’t you Leftist twits realize Bush is no longer President?

[FreeAtlanta]

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

[ilgipper]

Burning Korans is an appropriate method for disposing of them, according to their laws. Shooting is clearly not a manner to dispose, but is a disrespectful act. Big difference.

[G Larry]

Today’s were ALREADY DESECRATED BY THE PRISONERS!!

Why is everybody ignoring the REASON they were being burned?!?!?

Prisoners had written messages in them, which is itself a desecration according to Islam.

We have no business apologizing for anything!

[duckman]

I think Amazon should apologize for advertising Koran toilet paper. / sarc

[duckman]

What I don’t understand is why wasn’t the desecrated Korans turned over to a Muslim Cleric?

[GlockThe Vote]

I hated GWB’s second term and blame him for Obama 100%. This is more excuse making from the leftists in the media.

[Grizzled Bear]

While I haven’t read the exact details, prisoners were somehow using them to pass messages. That might be why they were destroyed rather than handed over to a (potentially hostile) imam.

[ngat]

Wasn’t there another even bigger dustup a few years ago when somebody allegedly flushed Korans down the toilet at Gitmo?

[rollo tomasi]

What I don’t understand is why anyone would riot and murder over a book desecrated by Muslims and thrown in the fire by Muslim contractors?

Your question is ridiculous and a sign of weakness. Why can’t Muslims police themselves? Why can’t they follow their own rules? What next, ask why we should shoot back?

[mkjessup]

I hated GWB’s second term and blame him for Obama 100%.

You are absolutely correct. That sonuvabitch showed his true RINO-colors, spent money like a drunken sailor, never even found his damn veto pen until 2006, tried to foist Harriett Myers on us, ignored the advice of Dick Cheney and John Bolton regarding Iran, and listened to that piano-playing amateur SecState Condi Rice who should have STAYED at Stanford.

GWB should have gotten off his dead ass and actually used the power of the Presidency to put the Kenyan Usurper in the spotlight, called him out on his Marxist ideologue past, Hell, he could have demanded that 0bama prove his Constitutional bonafides to serve as POTUS, but that would have required far more 'nads than GWB could ever dream of having.

And the fact is, TARP started with Bush, and his puerile sputtering about "having to abandon Capitalist principles in order to save capitalism", that has to be one of the biggest loads of steaming crap to ever come down the pike.

No surprise it came from one of the Bushes.

[Chgogal]

Bush’s apology was an exception as opposed to Obama constantly flying around the world and literally bowing and kowtowing to our “allies” starting with what’s his name from Saudi Arabia.

[Krankor]

According to Muslims who regularly attack the mosques of different sects, the proper way to dispose of a koran is to blow it up.....along with other Muslims.

[GlockThe Vote]

GWB was a disaster. I look at him with nothing but scorn and disdain.

[dainbramaged]

No surprise it came from one of the Bushes. I totally agree and your post says it all - this neocon nation building crap has been a disaster from the get go - the entire population of the middle east save Israel is not worth one drop of American blood, yet how many thousands of our finest have died for these seventh century orcs who will always despise America. Makes me sick.

[rollo tomasi]

"Bush’s apology was an exception..."

Lol, do you realize his families strong ties to Saudi? How does Saudis deal with religious tolerance? Saudis think they own America because of what they did in 1985.

What about insulting every ones' intelligence proclaiming Islam to be a religion of peace? You do realize Islamic sects have been pillaging since the mid-7th Century in the name of Allah and suffocating any semblance of liberty. Hell, Bush had to be talked into a surge because his strategy of winning "the hearts and minds" he promoted was failing.

[Ozymandias Ghost]

If we are to believe the media reports, the Bush apology was because of a single deliberate act of disrespect towards the Koran committed by a member of the U.S. military. The Obama apology-thon has been much more extensive and originated from what was reported as an legitimate attempt to collect and destroy blasphemed Koran's in which terrorists had written encrypted messages in order to convey and promulgate terrorist information and propaganda.

I certainly am not convinced of the accuracy of the reports regarding either incident; nor do I believe the incidents warranted anything approaching the level of violence displayed by the usual assortment of vengeful, crazed Muslim mobs.

For our President to apologize to these fanatics only served to intensify the violence and contributed to two U.S. military personnel being murdered and several more injured. In my estimation Obama’s and General Allen's actions directly contributed to the violence that resulted in the subsequent murders of two additional U.S. servicemen and a grenade attack that caused injuries to several more U.S. military personnel yesterday. All of these murders were committed by employees of the Afghan government.

These were not “tragedies;” they were deliberate, treacherous acts; cold, calculated murders of U.S. service members who were performing their duties in support of the Afghan government and its people. We and our leaders should consider and treat these heinous attacks as acts of war against the U.S.

I stand w/Newt on this matter; but, would add; once all U.S. personnel have been evacuated, we should use whatever means necessary to destroy any and all U.S.-financed weapons, munitions and infrastructure still in Afghanistan and let the survivors resume their 4th century lifestyles.