Posted on 03/14/2012 3:22:56 PM PDT by gandalftb
A tense visit to Afghanistan by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta got off to an alarming start on Wednesday when a stolen pick-up truck sped onto a ramp alongside a runway at a British military airfield and crashed into a ditch as Mr. Panetta’s plane was landing.
Pentagon officials said the Afghan driver emerged from the vehicle in flames.
The runway incident unfolded Wednesday morning as Mr. Panetta landed at Camp Bastion, a British air field that adjoins Camp Leatherneck, a vast United States Marine base in Helmand Province, next to Kandahar.
Pentagon spokesman, said the truck had been stolen from a coalition service member.
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You mean Obama’s religion of peace, his very good Muslim friends, tired to do in Panetta? This is shocking.
Good thing Panetta disarmed the evil US Marines before he spoke at them. Can’t be too careful when you are a part of a regime that has thrown the constitution to the wind and chosen sides with the enemy during a war.
Those Afghans seem to be a bunch of “bitter clingers” clinging to their explosive vests and korans.
‘I wanted to have the Marines look just like their Afghan partners’...
First time stripped of guns during address by secretary of defense...
I honestly think the Fedgov fears a coup. Or at least an attack.
The Armed Forces took an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, and that includes the Kenyan-Muslim-Marxist CinC.
Lets see, the Afgans don’t trust us, our generals don’t trust us and the American people no longer trust their own government. This should work out well.
The story I read from the NYTimes made it sound like Panetta ordered the General to have them disarmed. He wanted them to all look the same or some such nonsense.
LOL This is a story from the NYTimes. The story I read had a different headline, I think. But who knows!
The Muslims gotta get lucky some time. Pity they didn’t get him at the airport or at the base or . . .
They only fear a coup because they know what they what they are doing is wrong.
Projection. Typical leftist thought.
you know...you go into these small Afghani towns, and the people are angry. They have antipathy for others who are different from them.
I would have had no objection to a Neon Leon. Why? Because he is a fascist who works for a fascist president.
Oh.
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