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Petraeus warns Koran burning could endanger troops [Afghans burn an effigy of Terry Jones]
The Washington Times ^ | 9-7-10 | Ashish Kumar Sen

Posted on 09/07/2010 10:37:23 AM PDT by mlizzy

Edited on 09/07/2010 3:17:57 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: McGruff
This moron pastor may just have ignited another 9/11.

And just what did we do to ignite the first 9/11?

21 posted on 09/07/2010 10:54:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: McGruff

They are calling for Obama’s death over this? And the downside is?


22 posted on 09/07/2010 10:55:04 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012 (Proud Infidel)
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To: Lil Flower
Why bother to win? He's already said that once we pacify the country he wants to turn it back over to the taliban. That was Petreaus speaking, not obama..although I'm sure it's obama's policy.

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!

23 posted on 09/07/2010 10:56:26 AM PDT by pgkdan (When the same man...holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty: George Mason)
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To: mlizzy
Mulsims may not deny me my First Amendment rights.


24 posted on 09/07/2010 10:57:59 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Stimulus. 0bamaCare. Cap and Tax. 9/11 Victory Mosque. TARP. Amnesty. Summer of Recovery.)
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To: McGruff

Yeah...right! And they were full of love for us before that! Just what in the hell do you suppose we did to them to ignite the FIRST 9-11??? Screww them...I hope they all drown in that cesspool country.


25 posted on 09/07/2010 10:58:17 AM PDT by pgkdan (When the same man...holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty: George Mason)
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To: ilovesarah2012
If muslims burned Bibles, do you think Christians would riot and kill people? ?

Of course not, they would pray for them, at worst.

26 posted on 09/07/2010 10:58:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mlizzy; All

This is a no win scenario. If the church burns copies of the Kuran it gives excuses for riots in Afghanistan. If the church doesn’t burn them, then factions in Afghanistan can dictate what a church in America can or cannot do.

I don’t think burning the Koran is appropriate. However, even if I disagree with this church’s actions, I don’t think it right for crazies in Afghanistan to make such an issue of it. IF we must constantly worry about what they think about us....then in my opinion our strategy is flawed. They apparently aren’t as afraid of us as they should be.


27 posted on 09/07/2010 10:59:06 AM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: montag813

And what will our response be when Terry Jones is killed?
His chickens came home to roost??

I miss America.


28 posted on 09/07/2010 10:59:08 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: mlizzy

Petraeus has to figure that there are some here that are drunk with endtimes Koolaid who think it is their duty to start Armageddon and they don’t give a crap about troop difficulties.


29 posted on 09/07/2010 10:59:29 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: mlizzy

This should be a national koran burning.......


30 posted on 09/07/2010 11:03:25 AM PDT by klb99 (I now understand why the South seceeded)
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To: Paladin2

I don’t know the most effective means, but I do know we need to deliver a very forceful message concerning Islam. The we’ll play nice and eventually they’ll like us approach is a fatal tactic to take with this bunch. Europe has attempted this approach since the 70’s and there are now areas of Europe where non-Muslims simply cannot safely go and individuals are afraid to criticize Mo or Islam for fear of violent retribution. Dearborn it appears may soon be such an area in the US, certainly the evangelists from Acts 17 think so after their recent attempts to do something so simple as pass out gospel tracts.

Islam has to be stopped dead in its tracks in the US or we risk the loss of everything. As we’re seeing in the response to this pastor’s call to burn the Koran, in the final analysis there is no such thing as moderate Islam and all attempts to court this fiction will result in great harm.


31 posted on 09/07/2010 11:04:05 AM PDT by bereanway
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To: RexBeach
If General Pratraeus is concerned about it, I think we ought to back him up.

I agree. In counterinsurgency you do everything you can to win hearts and minds to choose your side over the insurgents.

This guy is being deliberately offensive, which isn't a very Christian thing to do regardless of what you think about Islam.

32 posted on 09/07/2010 11:04:23 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: klb99
..... or world wide burning of the little book of hate.

Free all the monkey monsters, just like in The Wizard of Oz, "Dorothy, you killed her, all hail Dorothy!!"

33 posted on 09/07/2010 11:05:50 AM PDT by yesca ("..don't touch that)
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To: ex-snook

In my opinion, it isn’t about Armageddon, it’s about letting the muslims know we don’t give a crap what they think and that islam has no place in America. Funny how the left is always on the muslims’ side but never on the Christians’ side.

In WWII did we try to make nice with the nazis?


34 posted on 09/07/2010 11:06:15 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012 (Proud Infidel)
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To: 353FMG

I am sick of Petra and Obamba and everyone else in this administration.


35 posted on 09/07/2010 11:07:15 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: mlizzy

Where can I buy one of these Satanic books to burn?


36 posted on 09/07/2010 11:07:32 AM PDT by MtnMan101 (THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISUM IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY)
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To: ilovesarah2012
In WWII did we try to make nice with the nazis?

Just with the Commies.

37 posted on 09/07/2010 11:08:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mlizzy

What happened to all the 1st amendment media types that were telling us that we had to swallow a mosque at ground zero. We were racist is oppose it. Well this is a 1st amendment situation too, tell them to be consistent.


38 posted on 09/07/2010 11:08:31 AM PDT by liliesgrandpa (Just out of curiosity, is there any possible GOP candidate that is too repugnant for you to support?)
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To: mlizzy

Not sure this is the best way for Christians to live at peace as much as possible. Rom. 12:18

OTOH, Muslims really don’t need much provoking to act like sleep-deprived hemorrhoid sufferers on speed. It’s hard to tell the difference between their normal day and their angry day.

Maybe on an angry day they cut the heads off their victims twice.


39 posted on 09/07/2010 11:08:56 AM PDT by lurk
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To: ilovesarah2012

Do you think it is wrong for Petraeus to get Muslims to fight on our side in Iraq and Afghanistan?


40 posted on 09/07/2010 11:09:20 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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