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White House Won't Say What Will Happen to Troops Who Burned Korans
CNSNEWS ^ | March 8, 2012 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 03/09/2012 3:51:45 PM PST by yoe

In the face of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call for the U.S. troops who burned Korans to be tried and punished, the White House won't say what will happen to those troops.

Connie Lawn with IRN/USA Radio Network asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, “Did Karzai ever express condolences for the British soldiers killed and did he explicitly apologize for the American soldiers who were killed? And what does the White House want to see done with these Americans who burned the Korans?”

“I think there is an investigation into that,” Carney responded. “You surely understand that I would not make any statements about the disposition of that investigation or how it should turn out. Secondly, I don’t have any more detail for you on the call the president had with President Karzai. I would point you to statements by Minister Wardak about the incidents and his expressions of regret,” Carney said referring to Afghanistan Defense Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak

The Korans were mistakenly burned on Bagram Air Force Base.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; karzai; koranburning; obama
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To: yoe

What did they do to the soldiers who burned the Bibles?


21 posted on 03/09/2012 4:28:37 PM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: Sola Veritas

It’s not interfering with the CINC. The President doesn’t set the ‘rules’ of the military, but merely carries out the rules created by Congress.


22 posted on 03/09/2012 4:28:37 PM PST by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: yoe

Burning a book...is not against ANY law!!


23 posted on 03/09/2012 4:34:10 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: yoe

Let’s see we have a bunch of troops who were ordered to burn the crap books and now they are supposed to be punished for doing their duty? Since when do we punish our troops on the whim of a foreign government. A real President would tell them to go suck and egg and would open fire on rioters and summarily execute the a**hat that killed two US officers.


24 posted on 03/09/2012 4:36:09 PM PST by calex59
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To: yoe

No One, No How, No Way, will ANYONE put our people in jeopardy for all this.

Bring those boys home, and tell those 7th century neanderthals to go ditch.

If anything bad happens to those boys, there WILL BE HELL TO PAY!!

We draw a line in the SAND. And hey, rug heads, this line YOU WILL NOT CROSS.

Those boys did their job. And I love them for it.


25 posted on 03/09/2012 4:41:52 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimze, my handle is a Hate Crime. Hope you don't like it.)
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To: yoe

I dunno, this is first non-stupid thing the administration has said on this whole fiasco. It gives me some hope that the miilary just intends to stonewall for a while, let this die, then say its a confidential matter while doing nothing to anyone.


26 posted on 03/09/2012 4:45:57 PM PST by circlecity
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To: calex59

nitpicky point: “go suck and egg”

I KNOW you meant “go suck AN egg”.

You were upset, and emotional, its understandable.

So I won’t make fun of you! (lol)

If I’ve done that once, I’ve done it ten thousand times.!

I’ll go to bed now.


27 posted on 03/09/2012 4:49:19 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimze, my handle is a Hate Crime. Hope you don't like it.)
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To: GenXteacher

Amen to that Brother.

But with this puke we have in the White House who know’s.

What will they be charged with, That is the question.

Theywee doing their duty burning trash and the Korans showed up. Did they even notice? can they be charged with not reading what they were burning?


28 posted on 03/09/2012 4:52:05 PM PST by Venturer
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To: plain talk

In a septic tank on base would have been a better place.


29 posted on 03/09/2012 4:53:41 PM PST by Venturer
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To: dfwgator

Lieutenant Harry Morant and Lieutenant Peter Hancock


30 posted on 03/09/2012 4:56:26 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: yoe

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31 posted on 03/09/2012 4:58:17 PM PST by SkyDancer (Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse)
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To: Theoria
"The President doesn’t set the ‘rules’ of the military..."

General Allen should protect his men at all costs...was it two or four who were shot in the back of the head...this is now murder not war. H. Karazai should be asking how he plans to punish his men for this crime...but since Obama has joined Karazai's side and surrendered, General Allen will have to keep his troops safe from the White House and Karazai. What a foolish, milksoppy, fop as this CIC turns out to be. Hands off these brave American soldiers! Contact your elected that there had better be no "punishment" for these soldiers....they are not over there to protect the Koran. They are there to quell, get rid of al Qaeda.

32 posted on 03/09/2012 4:59:13 PM PST by yoe
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To: plain talk

Thank you........


33 posted on 03/09/2012 5:02:15 PM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

Indeed my FRiend

This would be a line in the sand incident at least for me


34 posted on 03/09/2012 5:39:29 PM PST by Steve Newton (And the Wolves will learn what we have shown before-We love our sheep we dogs of war. Vaughn)
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To: redshawk

Throw in that hideous grin of his that he thinks is so cute—gag, makes we want to vomit everytime i see him do it.


35 posted on 03/09/2012 6:25:55 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Sacajaweau

Only if your are pscho. Then burning books are OK.


36 posted on 03/09/2012 7:05:37 PM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar)
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To: yoe
My Apology to President Karzai on Behalf of Americans
(Not what it sounds like. Huge slap in 0bama's face!)
(Now over 1,154,000 views!)

Here is how the Afghans found out about the koran burning last year in Florida.

From the WSJ:

"Most Afghans learned about the Quran burning in Florida only when Mr. Karzai on March 24 (4 days after!) condemned the act as "a crime against the religion and the entire Muslim nation," called on the U.S. and the U.N. to bring the perpetrators to justice and demanded "a satisfactory response to the resentment and anger of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world."


37 posted on 03/09/2012 7:35:19 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: plain talk
Apparently they don't know about Muslim tradition in Pakistan.

Why are Pakistanis throwing away 100s of Korans into sewage filled canal?

38 posted on 03/09/2012 7:50:54 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Venturer

“In a septic tank on base would have been a better place.”

I see no reason to pollute a perfectly good septic tank with something quite so foul but I guess it would be okay.


39 posted on 03/09/2012 10:00:05 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: yoe

“appeasing Karazai or any Muslim is also the wrong thing to do...”

Not to b. hussein obama.

“how many Christians were killed recently...”

Do you think he cares?

“Obama should be extremely careful here.”

Why? Voters should’ve been extremely careful when they believed all his lies, did no research but elected him anyway. And like idiots, they’ll ignore the obvious and vote for him again because they can’t face the truth.

After all his actions and the many telling comments he’s made, what will it take for people to realize that the occupier in our WH is a Muslim who dislikes our military, Christians (and Jews) and most of all, America??

BHO is NOT naive or ignorant - he knows exactly what he’s doing. In his mission to take us down, he’s been successful beyond his dreams.

And he’s just warming up.


40 posted on 03/10/2012 6:47:27 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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