Bush has jumped the shark.
Posted on 05/20/2008 3:44:24 AM PDT by HAL9000
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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.
The unidentified soldier, who pumped bullets into the Muslim holy book and wrote an expletive inside, has since been expelled from his unit and sent home.
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Damn george was the grouping not tight enough?
Bush has jumped the shark.
Waste of a perfectly good sniper! The only real mistake that he made was not burning the said Koran after he was finished.
It’s easy to shoot metaphoric holes on the book of mo-HAM-MAD.
If the Sgt was going to use a Koran for target practice, he should have kept it to himself.
LOL.
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The President is a gentleman and a statesman and a leader; a pearl that swine just can't stand.
He does the right thing and takes the petty heat that comes with it.
It's one thing to want to piss on the Koran. It's quite another to keep yourself a gentleman and restrain the urge, putting to more effective use elsewhere. And still another to know your God is big enough that you don't have to be lowered to the level of those who just don't get it.
George will eventually be apologizing for of the cross Ingram wears on the O’reilly Factor.
Ironicaly, this “surrending” from Bush to Islamists is reported by ....a FRENCH agency!
Shooting the queeranus was a waste of toilet paper!
I despise islam! But what a dumba$$ thing for that soldier to do! Great effort has been put forward to gain the cooperation of the iraqi people, and he pulls a dumb stunt. He’s finished in the service.
Geeze...the Commander apologized—wasn’t that enough? How about Muslims apologizing every time they desecrate a Bible or a Torah? Oh, wait, that will never happen.
When do you think Islamic leaders will apologize for killing 3,000 people on a quiet September morning in 2001?
anybody know what the average IQ of the Iraninian folks are. Must be down there to convince them of such barbaric beliefs!
When do you think Islamic leaders will apologize for killing 3,000 people on a quiet September morning in 2001?
Hey! Whoa, whoa...apples and oranges, there, dude, apples and oranges...let's not get crazy...
Obviously done to offset the apologies given by the followers of Islam for the killing of Christians worldwide.
Yea, right..
“How about Muslims apologizing every time they desecrate a Bible or a Torah?”
Or for the deaths of the Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Chaldean Christian deacons, priests and hierarchs they’ve gunned down in Iraq and not one of the perps caught because its OK for our dear allies, the devotees of the Religion of Peace, to kill Christians with impunity.
This helps contradict al-qaeda’s and the American left’s propaganda that the U.S. is waging war against Islam.
I’m sick and tired of these politicians who apologize to muslims continuously while making no effort to discuss muslim attitudes and behavior toward non-muslims in Islamic “societies.”
In George W. Bush’s case, he should probably apologize first for creating another Islamic nation (Kosovo) in Europe and for turning a blind eye to the nasty Wahabbi activities being carried out by the Saudi regime (incl. INSIDE the USA).
There is a big difference between a gentleman and a chump. Bush is a chump. A chump takes his shoes off in a mosque 5 days after 9/11. A statesman would never have done so. Say what you will about FDR, but it would have been unimaginable for him to have visited a Shinto shrine 5 days after Pearl Harbor.
FDR wasn’t relying on the help of millions of Japanese to assist us against Tojo. The comparison is invalid.
unhnn...
I think his behavior is right
Hey George!!!!
DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!
If you’re going to open your mouth, here’s list of one-liners:
- The foundation of Obama’s foreign policy is appeasement, why is he complaining when his speeches are full of it?
- Americans should not appologize for their prosperity, they should teach the rest of the world how they can also achieve prosperity.
- The ‘Global Warming’ lie is just an elite excuse to deny prosperity for the poor of the world.
Let’s not forget the destruction of Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem when the palestinians defiled and occupied this holy and sacred Christian site for a month. Where was the outcry?
Strong horse, weak horse. Guess which one we look like when we make stupid apologies like this?
Does anybody, including George Bush himself, remember George Bush saying right after 9-11 “you’re either with us or against us”?
Do any of these politicians know what it’s like to live in the daily hellhole and danger of mortal combat and yet have to worry about some JAG or moronic politician safe at home in Washington looking over his shoulder question every move he makes?
Good. Some people think the way to victory is to unnecessarily offend people. They are wrong.
No. But then, we are better than they are.
Also, Bush is the one in charge of that soldier.
Or, after they lop the head off of a Christian?
What’s happened to the forum here? Where are the articles listed like we used to have it?
That’s it; a good sniper leaves no trace of his passing through. This was his big mistake.
Couldn't have said it better my self.
Is that what we're doing? Relying on Muslims to assist in the defeat of Islamofascists? Not working too well, as we have discovered with Muslim FBI agents refusing to tape terror suspects, and Muslim Arabic translators passing messages to terrorists (and...). Bush is a chump because he will never accept what any sensible person anywhere in the West can see: the war is with Islam. But his disgrceful mosque visit after 9/11 and this silly apology is nothing next to his efforts to promote Albanian Islam in the heart of Europe, and his browbeating of Israel to create a terror state for the sake of his own legacy.
Well he did know the attack was coming and that a war mobilization waas the only way to reapir the dammage his failed socilaist policies had done to an already depressed economy.
That about covers it.
Why? When did anyone EVER publicly apologize for burning, ripping, or otherwise destroying, a Bible?
That is what so many on this forum will never understand.
He’s as big a whip as his daddy.
What the hell happened to this guy?
He’s as big a whimp as his daddy.
What the hell happened to this guy?
Should have had a terrorist holding the book close to his chest, while shots were taken.
I believe they were at a range, and Iraqi soldiers were the ones that cleaned up the targets, at least, that’s what I heard.
No riots yet? Those people get more upset about a US GI shooting a Koran than they do about terrorrists shooting their children.
Maybe, but our government funds works of art such as the “piss christ” and a painting of Mary with cow crap on it. I heard this story this morning and trembled with anger. Bush absolutely sucks.
It was either apologize for the actions of one soldier who disobeyed orders with his ill-advised stunt, or make the situation more dangerous for all of the troops and other Americans abroad. I’m sure it was an extremely unpleasant call for President Bush, but obviously it was the right call to make in terms of our national interests.
I wonder what McArthur would have done had a soldier gotten caught desecrating a Japanese holy book, or the like, during the occupation of Japan. I’m thinking I would not have liked to have been that soldier.
Where you been? Bibles and white people can be desecrated, spit on, despised and put down at all times, any situation. It’s the new political correctness. ;)
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