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White House defends Obama's apology for Quran burning (despite 2 US troops getting murdered)
The Hill ^ | 2/24/2012 | Amie Parnes and Jeremy Herb

Posted on 02/24/2012 3:22:49 PM PST by tobyhill

The White House is defending President Obama’s apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the burning of Qurans in Afghanistan, which was labeled a “surrender” by one Republican presidential candidate.

Josh Earnest, White House principal deputy press secretary, told reporters Friday that Obama thought an apology to Karzai was “appropriate.”

“He's putting the best interests and safety and welfare of our servicemembers and our civilians who are currently serving in Afghanistan right now,” Earnest said. “We have seen a spike in violence around this mistake, and the president believed it was in the best interest of their safety to make it clear that an apology was appropriate.”

Earnest said that Obama consulted with his security team before he made the decision to issue the apology.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: koranburning; quranburning
Obama can go to hell and even that maybe too good for him.
1 posted on 02/24/2012 3:22:54 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

I expect that behavior from an ass like Obama. I don’t expect it from his “security” team or his “generals.” We apologize because an entire civilization, whom we’re helping, is too stupid, too backward, to make rudimentary ethics judgments, who value paper and ink more highly than a human life? This is beyond absurd.


2 posted on 02/24/2012 3:29:42 PM PST by Mach9
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To: tobyhill

The “Raith” can have him to feed on, but they’d probably reject taking him.


3 posted on 02/24/2012 3:31:23 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: tobyhill

A spike of violence indeed. The AP map of this shows the areas affected and number of demonstraters escalating daily. Afghan Spring.


4 posted on 02/24/2012 3:31:43 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

All they need is an excuse.


5 posted on 02/24/2012 3:34:22 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: tobyhill

Well yes Barak, sometimes stabbing our troops in the back will be the easier way out, but should you do it?


6 posted on 02/24/2012 3:35:50 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: tobyhill

This slimy Kenyan would throw any military person under the bus to appease his fellow 6th century sand monkeys.

One can only imagine how deep the communist infestation is in the dumbocrap party as there has to be some democrats who have some level of patriotism yet they are stone cold silent.

He is a traitor to the Constitution, the Founders, our Military and of course to all of us.

The fact that this traitor is still held in high esteem by the MSM does not bode well for the future of this country.


7 posted on 02/24/2012 3:39:18 PM PST by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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To: Wurlitzer

Barry is but a symptom of a brain-dead electorate.

If good decent people can be tricked into voting for this evil, we are screwed.


8 posted on 02/24/2012 3:41:47 PM PST by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: tobyhill

Those there right now????

As opposed to those who were there dying.....

I feel He, our great Leader Obama and his family should go personally....

No security detail.....

Just walk in the streets with the loving Muslim faithful, peace loving, as that is what we are told....

Well, that would halt his next four years...... or it 5 years..... I do not know now, I am still trying to work out how the heck to come up with the name of the 57th state of the USA.....

Vote for Dictatorship..... vote for your death.

EL


9 posted on 02/24/2012 3:43:33 PM PST by Eureka_Lead (No political party has ever become a dictatorship when the citizens have firearms - Stay Vigilant)
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To: tobyhill

Apologize? This is what it should be: “Sorry we are trying to drag you into civilization, and that we burned the Satanic verses in the process. Now you have 30 minutes to clear out or we will open fire.”


10 posted on 02/24/2012 3:44:13 PM PST by Ironfocus (Unseat the Looter-in-Chief)
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To: tobyhill

“We have seen a spike in violence around this mistake..”

The biggest mistake is Buckwheat sitting in our Whitehouse.


11 posted on 02/24/2012 3:45:08 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: tobyhill
Okay...So one account has it that the Korans in question were being used to pass messages back and forth. If, in doing so, the books were marked then they were altered. Alteration of the Koran is a grave sin in Islam. Destroying defaced (defiled) Korans should have been doing them a favor.

Instead, the administration is cowering in front of the rabid dog of Islam, and that only makes it froth at the mouth more.

If Catholics raised half the ruckus that Muslims do over slights, there would be no debate over who will buy what pill.

12 posted on 02/24/2012 3:47:56 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: tobyhill

I do apologize to the people of Afghanistan. we shouldn’t have burned your “holy” book. We should have done the job properly and used a few nukes to burn your shithole of a country to the ground.


13 posted on 02/24/2012 3:49:29 PM PST by utherdoul
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To: tobyhill
Earnest said that Obama consulted with his security team before he made the decision to issue the apology.

We are using Roberts rules of order and they are using the law of the jungle.

Who do you think will win?

14 posted on 02/24/2012 3:50:07 PM PST by oldbrowser (They are Marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: utherdoul

LOL works for me.

All it will take is one glassy desert and the rest of the mideast will tone it down in a hurry.


15 posted on 02/24/2012 3:52:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: tobyhill

The White House Knows what the enemy knows -as was noted during the Founding era by a Frenchman named Montesquieu—
the bloody baggers are as the Angel blessed Hagar the Egyptian carrying Ishmael inside her , He will be a wild man,his hand will be against every man —and every mans hand against him. Genesis chapter 16: Montesquieu noted the Muslim were given to despotic rule and the Christian to democracy.
The WhiteHouse is AFRAID of the Muslim -but acknowledges it has nothing to fear from the Christian So they treat us with respect -and bow and scrape and beg from their Islamic Lords.
For Our Government has already submitted to bloody Islam.


16 posted on 02/24/2012 4:19:03 PM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: tobyhill
"I do apologize to the people of Afghanistan for the 2 U.S. soldiers getting in the way of your bullets. It was completely unexceptable for them to do that. Those bullets belonged to the honorable Afghan people, even though the U.S. gave them to you for free. Those 2 soldiers were not authorized to interfere with the firing of your weapons."

"That said, I have directed Secretary of Defense Leon Penetta to have the 2 bodies buried in the desert and to convene a courts martial to try them 'in absentia' for stealing Afghan bullets and concealing them (bullets)on their persons. If they are found guilty, which they will be, as I, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States, have deemed it, effigies of the 2 shall be fabricated and tied to a street light post on Wall Street and executed, again 'in absentia', by 57 muslim soldiers....one for every one of the 57 states. May God bless Afghanistan and the peaceful people of Islam. Ali Akbar."

17 posted on 02/24/2012 4:29:02 PM PST by jmax
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To: tobyhill
putting the best interests and safety and welfare of our servicemembers and our civilians who are currently serving in Afghanistan right now

Someone needs to tell this @$$hole that it isn't about right now, or about the safety of our servicemembers. One can always retreat to safety, or never have shown up in the first place. This is, or was, being done with our future in mind. I wonder what the brave leader would do if he discovered a bee hive in his back yard where Sasha and Malia liked to play.

ML/NJ

18 posted on 02/24/2012 4:34:11 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: tobyhill

It is never in anyone’s best interest to show cowardice.

When you show cowardice to an enemy they will take advantage of that cowardice.


19 posted on 02/24/2012 4:45:47 PM PST by Venturer
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