Posted on 02/24/2012 1:52:05 PM PST by ColdOne
STERLING, Va. (AP) - A senior Pentagon official is apologizing to Washington-area Muslims for the burning of Qurans at a military base in Afghanistan.
Peter Lavoy, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asia and Pacific security affairs, says the military is investigating and that all troops are being retrained in the handling of religious materials.
Lavoy's remarks were Friday at a mosque in suburban Washington, D.C. They come after protests across Afghanistan over the burning of several Qurans at a U.S. military base. Military officials say 20 people have died in the protests, including two U.S. soldiers.
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IMHO, the biggest mistake made was before Obama and it was to provide prisoners with Korans in the first place. If prison management requires a reward system that includes reading material, let them read dime store novels. No one would care if they were burned up once the prisoners scribbled messages on them, the prisoners wouldn't have access to their main recruiting tool, and the press wouldn't have gotten as far with their fabricated Quran-in-the-toilet story. That story was designed by the leftist press to do political harm and a lot of innocent people both muslim and western were collateral damage.
The most recent mistake before the latest round of ass kissing by the Thief-in-Chief, was made by whoever just recently - and either stupidly or treacherously - thought it necessary to tell a reporter about the disposal. If done with malice towards the mission, whoever did that is just as guilty as the islamic freaks who are rampaging now of any deaths that resulted. And the reporter who thought it neccesary to pass it on has blood on his or her hands, too.
Obama should be grateful for the story though- it isn't about the economy.
Maybe. BUT, once the decision was made, when the Korans were to be disposed of - the COMMANDING OFFICER SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that the Korans NEEDED to be disposed of SENSITIVELY ...
The COMMANDING OFFICER is JUST as responsible for the 2 soldiers deaths as the Afghanis who committed them ...
The COMMANDING OFFICER is an IDIOT!
They sent a guy to apologize? Gee. Why didn’t they send a woman?
I would have burned the Mosque and told the zealots they should have brought their Quran’s outside to burn instead of hiding them.
>>Either the congress, the military or millions of Patriots should be removing this enemy from the WH now.
I agree. He stands up before the American people and laughs in our faces as he lies and knows that no one will call him out for anything. In earlier times, this man would have had to flee the country or would be getting the Ceausescu treatment by now.
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