Posted on 05/17/2008 5:09:19 PM PDT by Prole
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A soldier used the Quran -- Islam's holy book -- for target practice, forcing the chief U.S. commander in Baghdad to issue a formal apology on Saturday.
Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond apologizes after a soldier admitted using the Quran for target practice. Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, apologized to leaders in Radhwaniya, in the western outskirts of Baghdad, for the staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader assigned to the headquarters of the 64th Armored Regiment.
He also read a letter of apology by the shooter. It was the first time the incident -- which tested the relationship between U.S.-backed Sunni militiamen and the military -- was made public since it was discovered May 11. "I come before you here seeking your forgiveness," Hammond said to tribal leaders and others at the apology ceremony.
"In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers." Another military official kissed a Quran and presented is as "a humble gift" to the tribal leaders.
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The New Testament is something that I prefer to stick with.
I am not a fan of appeasing the Mohammedans.
Their book is pure evil, and I won't ever grovel or cry in front of it.
I just figured marymaryquitecontrary was TheZMan’s sock puppet and moved on.
Thanks. My leadership and management styles are somewhat...eclectic.
wrong. we’re not in Iraq to fight all Iraqis. if you insult them, we’ll end up fighting them all.
Thank you.
I have been saying this for years with the Palestinians.
The Israelis gave them land, electricity, water etc...
Yet the Pali-b@st@rds still fire rockets at Israel.
Appeasement yields NOTHING, and we will find that out the hard way I guess.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+koran&btnG=Google+Search
Get a free Koran for worship or target practice.
who is “they” ?
Are in Iraq to fight a crusade and kill all Muslims or setup a decent government and get out of there?
Once Iran nukes Israel, we will be fighting all Mohammedans.
You think our "Shiite Allies in Iraq" will support the US-Israeli alliance against Iran?
Go back and read my post # 73. I said the soldier was wrong.
Next, read my post #79 in the correct context. Neither the Islamofacsists nor the Liberal progressives will ever love us.
I choose not to let it hurt my feelings.
It is rather funny, isn’t it? You’d think some of the internet generals on this thread would’ve seen the movie.
got it.
The idea is that if words spreads, even people who would normally be our allies will form a “Jihad brigade” and our soldiers have enough problems as it is. Quite a few are getting wounded and killed. If you recall, after Petraus, many insurgent Sunnis came on our side. Whatever he did (maybe pay them?) worked and less soldiers are getting killed
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I agree with you. I have nothing but contempt for the Koran, but doing what that soldier did "in country" was bad headwork. This will be all over Al Jazeera and will be a setback for our cause.
You are so right. A real officer would've made that soldier clean latrines for a year, then posted him so far north there's no sunlight.
OK, so it’s perfectly fine for terrorists to use the Bible as toilet paper (as they did during the siege of the Church of the Nativity).
“Not where I live.”
Not where I live, either (so far). But considering the way we fall all over ourselves trying to please the muslims, the day will come that “desecrating” a Koran will become a misdemeanor at first and then a felony next, and who knows what the end result will be.
First of all, that is not Patton, that's George C. Scott, playing Patton, and quite admirably too.
This is Patton:
Unlike Scott, Patton had a high squeaky voice. Did that make him a lessor man than the one portrayed by Scott. No Way!
Patton was forced, by Ike, to apologize to his own troops for slapping a private who "Just couldn't take it" in a hospital tent in Sicily. And he did. In several separate "briefings" in different locations. He also learned, from personal study after the incident, that "battle fatigue" was quite real and took measures to prevent and treat it in it's early stages, when he commanded 3rd Army. Patton was an SOB, proudly so, but he was a smart SOB.
So are our Colonels and Generals today.
Oh not all are SOBs, each has his/her own style, but they are also smart.
Speaking of the Constitution, if wearing the headdress is a religious thing, then what about the freedom of religion of the female cadets. This is different than respecting another country's culture in their country, and not going out of your way to antagonize them.
But I'm antagonized by the site of those female cadets putting on that religous head gear that demeans women. They are not just women, they members of the US Armed Forces, and future commissioned officers.
I didn't realize that Marcionism still existed. You always are learning new things on FR, that's for sure.
If I am not mistaken the PLO is not part of the US military and not subject to its discipline.
It is customary in Catholic Masses for women to cover their hair. Non-Catholics visiting a Catholic Church who are aware of this normally comply, out of respect.
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