U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice. Military apologizes.

CNN ^ | May 17, 2008 | CNN

[AZ .44 MAG]

“piss Christ=freedom of speech

shooting at paper=crime and groveling by heroes

Stand by for burqas at the beach and sharia at the mall.

[Prole]

I cannot be politically correct, and I believe that this General is a weak POS for groveling in front of something as horrendously evil as Islam.

If I were the General, I would have told the State Department robots that I want out of the service. I won't grovel in front of evil, and I won't kiss an evil book.

Heck, I would have been forced out long before this incident.

Look at what the PC scumbags did to General Peter Pace when he made his comments about the homosexuals. They attacked him just like they probably threatened "General Grovel N. Kiss."

[marymaryquitecontrary]

Bravo.

[El Gato]

Political correctness and the US military.

Not PC, pragmatism. You don't piss on your allies boots and tell them it's raining. No matter what you think of the Koran, there are plenty of Muslims who are ralleying to the cause of freedom, and against the terrorists, the criminals and the Iranian and Syrian thugs.

Shooting the Koran was a stupid act. Doing it in an Iraqi police range was imbecilic.

If as a private citizen want to buy a dozen Korans, take them to the range or some field somewhere, more power to you, it's a free country. But if you are a member of the US Armed Forces in a country where the vast majority are Muslim, (even Kurds are Muslims), then desecrating their holy book is not exactly an optimum way to win friends and influence people, which is after all part of the mission.

The guy should have his ass kicked every klick of the way to the airplane, and then every step of the way from the airplane to his barracks... hopefully in Greenland if we still have installations there.

[Prole]

You would fit in at the State Department well.

[meyer]

"U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice"

So far, so good....

"Military apologizes"

Why?

[Prole]

The Army's leadership is filled with PC-bot careerists and opportunists who will knowingly grovel and kiss evil's face.

Anyone who disagrees with such a concept should be "kicked and beaten" all the way to the airport.

[easternsky]

Welcome to Free Republic. Plan on staying long??

[meyer]

,...he apologized for comparing the Nazi party to Republicans and Democrats.

Apparently, a bit ahead of his time....

[IronJack]

This is just offensive. Everyone knows the koran is better used as buttwipe.

[TheZMan]

I’m honestly one of the least “PC” people you’ll meet and find the whole movement deplorable. The actions taken in this story though have absolutely nothing to do with being PC, nor is my response.

I look at people’s actions from more than just my own personal viewpoint. It’s an awakening of sorts.

[b4its2late]

Bite me.

They'd kill them for less.

[Grizzled Bear]

While I would refuse to "Kiss" the Koran I remember how I was enraged at a Crucifix being placed in a jar of piss and called "Art."

I would have presented the tribal leaders with the remnants of my boot that I broke off in the young mans hind quarters and called it even.

[Grizzled Bear]

Well said!

[Grizzled Bear]

I didn’t know Pinch Sulzberger trolled here!

[Prole]

That is a heck of a lot more acceptable than groveling and kissing like a wuss.

[Grizzled Bear]

Mein Kampf and the Koran are loaded with terrible, racist statements about killing Jews. They are something out of a Louis Farrakhan speech.

Louis Farrakhan IS a Muslim! Nation of ISLAM...?

[Prole]

That's what I am saying.

Why are our American Soldiers being forced to follow these careerist and opportunist officers who grovel like wimps and kiss the face of evil?

I feel like I am living in a cuckoo clock.

[Grizzled Bear]

and when 15 soldiers are killed by Iraqis because of it...?

Lose the liberal mind set that our enemies need an excuse to hate us. They aready hate us so they look for excuses to justify it. Before you spaz out I already said the soldier screwed up. I just get tired of that tired old "this will makes thems hates us!!!" rhetoric.

[Grammar Nazi]

The chapters about killing Jews and non-muslims are especially disgusting.

Come now. Surely you've read the saltier portions of the Old Testament? If not, this atheist site (which I don't endorse) should get you started.