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Karzai’s Response to Obama’s Apology: Put U.S. Troops on Trial and Punish Them
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Posted on 02/26/2012 10:18:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Karzai’s Response to Obama’s Apology: Put U.S. Troops on Trial and Punish Them By Terence P. Jeffrey February 26, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Three days after President Barack Obama dispatched his ambassador to Afghanistan to hand deliver a personal letter from the president of the United States to Afghan President Hamid Karzai apologizing because U.S. forces at Bagram Air Force Base had mistakenly burnt some Korans, Karzai has responded to the gesture in a statement broadcast live on Afghan television.

Karzai, according to a BBC translation of his remarks made Sunday, told the Afghan people he was speaking to them after discussing the matter with “jihadi leaders,” “prominent scholars,” and Afghan elected officials, and that he spoke for the “pure sentiments” of the “Afghan nation” and the “Islamic world,” when he said: “We call on the US government to bring the perpetrators of the act to justice and put them on trial and punish them.”

At the same time Karzai was demanding the prosecution and punishment of U.S. troops involved in the Koran-burning incident, he conceded that the U.S. government had indicated that the Koran burning “was not deliberate.”

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KEYWORDS: karzai; koranburning; obamaapology
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To: Sub-Driver

Let China, Iran and Russia deal with them. Liberals have ruined our chances over there.


21 posted on 02/26/2012 10:39:20 AM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: maine-iac7

This woman voices my idea of an appropriate apology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYEctbGSkkw


22 posted on 02/26/2012 10:40:59 AM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just pull Karzai’s security...he is one thing I trust the afghanis to “take care of”


23 posted on 02/26/2012 10:41:30 AM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Levante

Just keep him off the last helicopter and let nature take its course.


24 posted on 02/26/2012 10:41:36 AM PST by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Sub-Driver

I say good idea to punish whoever is in charge.

Let’s send them 0bama and they can put him on trial.


25 posted on 02/26/2012 10:42:03 AM PST by jakota (jakota)
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To: tumblindice
Kosher hams?

Mark 'em Kosher - double whammy hammy - render the land 'unclean" forever -

All we've ever had to do to win is announce - our bullets are all tipped in pig blood.

Culturally insensitive? Tough!

So's murdering our troops who've been trying to save their useless hides. Get out and leave them to their barbarian ways...just keep them contained within their borders.

26 posted on 02/26/2012 10:42:18 AM PST by maine-iac7 (.)
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To: Sub-Driver; RaceBannon; stowaway; jjm2111; Mrs.LoneGOPinCT; underbyte; badbackman; Bigfitz; ...

IF OBAMA ACTUALLY DOES THIS, THERE NEEDS TO BE A MUTINY ACROSS ALL SERVICES AND RANKS FROM PVT TO GENERAL

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/karzai-s-response-obama-s-apology-put-us-troops-trial-and-punish-them


27 posted on 02/26/2012 10:44:24 AM PST by RaceBannon (Romney would surrender to Islam as fast as Obama promotes it)
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To: GOPJ

The Soviets failed in Afghanistan. And believe me, they were much more ruthless than we are right now. Millions of Afghans killed. But still failed to pacify the country back in the ‘80s.


28 posted on 02/26/2012 10:44:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Levante
Karzai has known for 3 years that we are pulling out and leaving him to hang in the wind. As a result he has been dealing with the Taliban with Obamami’s blessings. This is Karzai’s way of segwaying from us to them. Of course it's going to cost the lives of a lot of our troops because they are located in a land locked country surrounded by enemy nations. Time for our military to read up on Xenophon's methods, they certainly worked for him and his troops.
29 posted on 02/26/2012 10:45:48 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: Sub-Driver
Burning without a permit, FU Karzia, get the troops out then carpet bomb Kabul.
30 posted on 02/26/2012 10:45:48 AM PST by boomop1 (term limits is the only way to save this country.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If Obama puts any soldiers on trial,,, there needs to be an immediate American spring to remove him from office.
Im already there,, because Obama will meekly submit to this.
Can anyone imagine what Reagan would have responded to this? FDR if it came from nazis? Truman?

Obama is a disgrace and should be removed before the election. He risks American lives every day he occupies the office.


31 posted on 02/26/2012 10:46:59 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Sub-Driver; RaceBannon; stowaway; jjm2111; Mrs.LoneGOPinCT; underbyte; badbackman; Bigfitz; ...

IF OBAMA ACTUALLY DOES THIS, THERE NEEDS TO BE A MUTINY ACROSS ALL SERVICES AND RANKS FROM PVT TO GENERAL

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/karzai-s-response-obama-s-apology-put-us-troops-trial-and-punish-them


32 posted on 02/26/2012 10:47:13 AM PST by RaceBannon (Romney would surrender to Islam as fast as Obama promotes it)
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To: maine-iac7

Kosher bacon? Is it possible to label anything associated with a hog part as “kosher.”


33 posted on 02/26/2012 10:50:53 AM PST by tumblindice (He walks, he talks, he crawls on his belly like a reptile--The Fake American President)
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To: Sub-Driver

I wonder if our cockroach in chief (CINC) understands he is being used as Karzin tool


34 posted on 02/26/2012 10:53:51 AM PST by Popman (America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
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To: mardi59
These savages only know death and destruction. A bit of Shock and Awe might be in order. Remove ground troops and let the real Shock and Awe begin. Then take the handcuffs off the troops and let them do thir jobs, kill the enemy and break what’s left. Time to show the savages America will not be played.

Why do so many not understand this simple philosophy. What a no-brainer.

35 posted on 02/26/2012 10:54:13 AM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
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To: Sub-Driver

US military destroys Qurans and burns Bibles. Maybe they should just get out of the business of destroying religious documents altogether.

http://www.dogpile.com/search/web?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=27&q=us+military+burning+bibles&ql=

“I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera’s clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed,” spokeswoman Major Jennifer Willis said at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.


36 posted on 02/26/2012 10:54:26 AM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Sub-Driver
The White House did not publicly release the three-page letter that Obama sent to Karzai on Thursday. However, the New York Times reported on Friday, that Karzai’s press office said two of the sentences in Obama’s letter said: “I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. I extend to you and the Afghan people my sincere apologies.”

FUBO!!!!

37 posted on 02/26/2012 10:54:26 AM PST by Balata (It's 'WE THE PEOPLE' Obama, not 'WE THE SHEEPLE'!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This could be what finally makes Jimmy Carter out of Obama.


38 posted on 02/26/2012 10:59:17 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Sub-Driver

Charge them with what, exactly???

It’s time to let Karzai lead his people - alone and without our help.


39 posted on 02/26/2012 11:00:18 AM PST by Noamie
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To: Sub-Driver
OBAMA BEGS, OBAMA BEGS FORGIVENESS
40 posted on 02/26/2012 11:02:28 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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