Posted on 02/25/2012 12:04:16 PM PST by Marguerite
Reuters – 1 hr 39 mins ago
Two American officers were shot dead at close range inside Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a U.S. official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base.
"For obvious force protection reasons, I have also taken immediate measures to recall all other ISAF personnel working in ministries in and around Kabul," said General John Allen, adding that the attacker's actions "will not go unanswered".
The two American officers, advisers to the ministry, were fired on at close range, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Afghan security sources said the two dead were a U.S. colonel and major with NATO forces.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shootings.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The Koran burnings ignited anti-Western fury. Thousands have taken to the streets and at least 27 people have been killed in the protests. Two other American soldiers were shot dead on Thursday by an Afghan national army soldier who joined the rallies.
“adding that the attacker’s actions “will not go unanswered”.
It will be answered...by another apology from our spineless, POS p-resident
I just watched a film clip of General Allen apologising to the Noble people of Afghanistan.
Turned my stomach.
Have we gotten an apology from Hamid Karzai yet??? Thought not.
Our bravest and best are being killed. We honor their sacrifice and pray for their families, friends and comrades-at-arms.
The talibans hollering for their f...g koran, the same who blew up hundreds-year-old Buddha statues.
The same Muslims who burn Christian churches in Nigeria with women and children INSIDE, who burned the Torah scrolls and destroyed Joseph Tomb in Israel, who kill and rape Christian girls in Egypt; this scum of the earth don’t deserve an apology from anyone, LEAST from the president of the United States.
Would now that worm occupier of the White House apologize to the families who lost their sons, brothers, husbands or fathers in Afghanistan, where he SENT them to die, killed by fanatic mob?
Why should he when it's all Bush's fault?
President Jerk-Ass issued a statement that America is very sorry the officers got in the way of tge Afghan bullets.
President Jerk-Ass issued a statement that America is very sorry the officers got in the way of tge Afghan bullets.
It's never easy to admit when you're wrong, but I have to admit I was. I thought we could go in, stabilize the country, put the beginnings of a government and infrastructure, and get out. I didn't think we'd ever make it Connecticut, but maybe a Kazakhstan.
Afghanistan is populated with some of the worst people on earth. It will NEVER be anything even approaching some semblance of a civilized nation.
In retrospect, we should have told the taliban they had 72 hours to give up OBL, or we'd nuke Kabul. Assuming they didn't capitulate, give them 48 hours or we'll nuke Khandahar and Herat. Then 24 hours and we'll strike Jalalabad, Mazir-e-Sharif, and Kunduz. And so on and so on until we were relatively sure OBL was dead, or at least persona non-grata to any nation on earth.
I think it's been proved beyond reasonable doubt that muslims cannot be civilized and the only way to deal with them is to bring down the fires of hell when they step out of line.
If the jackass-in-chief is going to bow and apologize to someone as corrupt as Karzai over something so stupid as the burning of paper with words on it, and our soldiers are killed over it, it is definately time for our guys to pack up, raise the middle finger and leave that piece of s*** country to its own self-destruction. Obama is acting just like Lyndon Johnson did, turning it into ‘Nam, and we all know how well that went...
>>>>In retrospect, we should have told the taliban they had 72 hours to give up OBL, or we’d nuke Kabul. Assuming they didn’t capitulate, give them 48 hours or we’ll nuke Khandahar and Herat. Then 24 hours and we’ll strike Jalalabad, Mazir-e-Sharif, and Kunduz. And so on and so on until we were relatively sure OBL was dead, or at least persona non-grata to any nation on earth.
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Yes, but who would control spitting crowd of San Francisco.
Problem is within US. Every President is afraid of San Francisco liberals.
The Big’un is coming and will solve that problem for ever
We can nuke San Francisco too.
“muslims cannot be civilized”
Of course they can’t-they still live in the Dark Ages of the late 7th century. When Russia was almost as uncivilized and out of touch, Peter the Great warned the people he would “drag Russia kicking and screaming into the modern world”, and proceeded to do so. Since no leader in Trashcanistan has the balls to do that and resists our every attempt to do so, it is time for us to just get the hell out. If any of their minions attack us again, trash their infrastructure back to the stone age like my parents told me the US and their allies did in WWII...
Now you all are seeing how fickle minded are Islamic world.
It is a book, who know how it was made. Who knows paper was soaked by Pig urine or tree was pee by pig. Paper of book may have made of that tree. Just imagine what it will do to Islamic world.
They never tries to understand what is written, but these illiterate ready to kill people for this book made of tree or who know.
Now a days paper is made of re-cycle stuff also.
That young woman on YouTube is great! Thanks for posting her video.
Here’s n oldie from the so called human prisoner pyramid stories came out. “Letter of Apology” was written by Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman, US
Marine Corps, Retired:
I humbly offer my opinion here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims(Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).
I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after
9/11.
I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.
I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under
savage dictatorships.
I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.
I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious
schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.
I am sorry that Yassar Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and
high-jacked the Palestinian “cause.”
I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a
token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial
supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame
the USA for all their problems.
I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own brainwashed
masses do not understand any of this (from the misleading vocal elements of
our society like radical professors, CNN and the NY TIMES).
I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the
“food for oil” money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers
upon their death.
I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will
receive 72 virgins in “paradise.”
I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies,
children, the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are legitimate
targets.
I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms
and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making.
I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of
Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.
I am sorry we don’t drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient “Holy Site.”
I am sorry they didn’t apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade
Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox
Church - one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry they didn’t apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the
embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl,
etc....etc!
I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village
in Africa.
We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move on.
That’s one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don’t hide this stuff
like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.
Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we
were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners.
Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until
captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we’re supposed to
wring our hands because a few were humiliated?
Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people
killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating
Fallujahans.
If you want an apology from this American, you’re going to have a long
wait! You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins.
Should be a “must see!!”
>>>>. If any of their minions attack us again, trash their infrastructure back to the stone age like my parents told me the US and their allies did in WWII...
First civilized world is blackmailed by Oil and now civilized world are committing suicide by not drilling, destroying dams to protect fish and “GO Green”, march towards stoneage.
During WWII, real men were fighting, real European men died during WWI and WWII, now leftover are docile bunch ready to commit suicide.
Same is with US, they are hostage of San Francisco liberals and marching towards stoneage.
US is also missing its WWII men and Plan Parenthood is winning.
If we had a REAL President, instead of that disgusting Kenyan porch monkey, we would bomb the living hell out of ALL of those savages and be done with them.
U.S. Fatalities By Year in Afghanistan:
Bush’s years:
2001 12
2002 49
2003 48
2004 52
2005 99
2006 98
2007 117
2008 155
Obama’s years:
2009 317
2010 499
2011 418
In the first two months of 2012 - 44 fatalities.
MrT5 was stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco for a few years years-he disliked the town and its insanity with such a passion that I stayed here with his blessing and we did the long distance military marriage thing until he was sent back here to Texas and Ft. Sam Houston.
Now of course the military has been banished from San Fran, and I don’t hear anyone saying it is a shame that posting is no longer available. Let the left coast keep the place-MrT5 was overjoyed to have Ft. Sam be his last posting.
Yeah, but it is okay to murder Christians, outlaw and burn Bibles in muzzie countries. And they call this “religion” a religion of peace? More like pieces of bodies scattered around after the bombs go off.
MrT5 was stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco for a few years years-he disliked the town and its insanity with such a passion that I stayed here with his blessing and we did the long distance military marriage thing until he was sent back here to Texas and Ft. Sam Houston.
Now of course the military has been banished from San Fran, and I don’t hear anyone saying it is a shame that posting is no longer available. Let the left coast keep the place-MrT5 was overjoyed to have Ft. Sam be his last posting.
Maybe I should have put the </s> tag at the end. My bad.
We could have, and we had a very good model to work from...Imperial Japan.
Up until VJ Day, the Japanese people considered Hirohito a god, and their fanatic zeal reflected that. Not unlike the Afghan tribes, they respected only power and saw any indication of surrender or appeasement as a sign of weakness to be punished.
What it took was a crushing, humiliating military defeat to rock their world, undermine their belief system, get their attention and convince every man, woman and child they dare not f*ck with us again. Once that's been accomplished, install a military governor and force them to prove they are capable of self-governance.
If we weren't willing to do this from the outset, we should have never gone in the way we did. They speak the language of brute force and ignorance, and we've attempted to engage them in the niceties of western diplomacy.
The amazing thing is that it is usually not Republicans who denigrate religion anyway,I am not saying conservatives are all that fond of Muslims but I highly doubt anyone during the Bush years would have been stupid enough to burn a Koran in its host country.
The liberals’s own contempt for any kind of organized religion and their ignorance ultimately led to this.It is not that the actions of the Afghans are justified in any way,I doubt the officers or the soldiers killed had anything to do with the burning of the Koran and even if they did.......why prosecute them in the first place or kill them?
But again the liberal leadership failed to understand why you don’t mess with religious symbols and screwed everyone serving in this country.
Thank you God, for stationing my Marine son in Okinawa.
“Two American officers were shot dead at close range inside Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry on Saturday, “
Is barack hussein obama and hitlery passing out candy yet?
Pull out of Afghanistan and carpet bomb it with pork products. Threaten and follow through on leveling Mecca if there is any retaliation.
It’s time to end this now.
proud daughteer of a Navy Chief, USN Ret and proud wife of a Navy Chief, USN Ret. As far as I am concerned our commander in chief can go to hell.
Yes to that.
THIS IS WAR. Unfortunately, we have the worst possible president at the worst possible time.
Is/are the killer/s in custody or not?
In the end what is the USA military and taxpayer going to get out of our 10+++ years in Afghanistan? The Soviets learned, we didn’t. We never learned that defending corrupt governments and leader/dictator is never a reason to go to war. We need to defend the USA only and forget these alliances. But we can’t because the USA has been hijacked.
There is no way to fight a war by winning the hearts and minds of the people. It is counterproductive. Let the Afghan people fight it out as Americans did in our Civil War.
In reality in today’s asymmetric wars you can not win a war unless one is willing to expend a million to one ratio in offense versus that with which the embedded population expends on insurgent defense. In the end what is won?
Let’s get the hell out of Afghanistan and try to keep in mind the absurdity of going to war without a mission. Either keep our nose out of world affairs and bring the USA back from indebtedness or add a 25% war surtax to every corporation and individual that will then ascertain our commitment.
Afghanistan was the birthplace of 9/11. We should’ve turned it into a bunch of pits like ground zero, but instead engaged in “negotiations” with the Taliban and the possible release of Taliban affiliates from GITMO.
The people of Afghanistan hated the Soviets for their unwarranted intrusion.. SOME Afghanistani’s are sympathetic to our assault on the Taliban and hate the Taliban too.. KILLING the Taliban was working out great but then we switched to pansy-azz ROE and ‘heroin crop replacement’ nation-building crap and things went south.
And they’re certain Korans were burned on purpose? A decade in Afghanistan and NATO personnel knowingly throw away/burn Korans?
Even from the beginning, this just smells like something that could easily have been ginned-up to cause trouble.
What we should have done is let the Special Forces do the job of dismantling the Taliban. This we did but then we tried “Nation Building” which in that country will never work.Those people seem to have a strong dislike for any form of government and were just waiting for a excuse to blow up.
Now we should pull out,blowing up anything we cant carry and let the inmates run the nuthouse.
And Piss on Islam...Piss on the Koran and Piss on Allah.
That was hilarious. How is it possible they could be this uncoordinated?
Top U.S. military leaders are top U.S. military leaders because they service the current person occupying the White House. Should they put the welfare of their Service and their people ahead of obeying the White House, they get fired.
Consequently, you end up with things like the “rough&tough” USMC top general endorsing open homosexuals in the Military. Something he would be highly unlikely to do if his job survival did not depend on kissing Presidential *ss (or such).
Yeah, I understand that the military leadership can only do so much.
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