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2012-02-28 Afghanistan

NATO Agrees to Trial for Koran Burners - Afghan Government sez

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Posted by Speregum Thavitch1008 2012-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 puke!

Posted by Water Modem 2012-02-28 02:24|| 2012-02-28 02:24|| Front Page Top

#2 And we are spending billions and lives because?

Posted by Gruth McGurque5303 2012-02-28 09:36|| 2012-02-28 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama should know that if there is such a trial there will be protests in this country. If he wants to hand the Republicans an issue that will certainly defeat him in November he couldn't pick a better issue than this.

We let these people forget that we conquered them. We let them forget why we conquered them. It was their holy Quran that inspired the attacks that were launched on 9/11 from Afghanistan soil. We should have burned every copy of it in that whole country and made them apologize to us. We should have punished them, all of them, let them know exactly why we were doing it and let the whole world know that this is what happens if they attack the United States.

This incident angers me more than anything that has happened since 9/11. What makes it even worse is our mealy mouthed president who actually bows down to these bastards when he should be telling them to fuck off and die, literally and publicly.

But if he can't or won't do that then get all of our people out of there before we lose any more of them. It is rapidly degenerating into an untenable situation and it isn't worth it. We have not won the hearts and minds, we have lost them. The logistics are not sustainable. If we're not going to kill them all we need to get out, but only after letting them know that if they ever attack us again we will kill them all.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-02-28 12:12|| 2012-02-28 12:12|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the result of that so-called "Smart" diplomacy I keep hearing so much about.

More like complete capitulation to barbarians. How about we just pay them 1,000lbs of gold and 200lbs of pepper and call Rome sacked?

Posted by DarthVader 2012-02-28 13:29|| 2012-02-28 13:29|| Front Page Top

#5 The rot set in long before Obama.

One of the outrages of the 2005 Koran Controversy was Newsweek's lie.

Another outrage was this:

"...several hundred clerics issued a statement Sunday saying they would call for a jihad against the U.S. if those responsible for the alleged desecration were not handed over to an Islamic country for punishment within three days."

Less than 4 years after an attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor these clerics, residing in defeated and occupied Afghanistan, could threaten the US with impunity.

Rather than swiftly bringing these people to justice (either by shipping them to Guantanamo, or by trying them for war crimes and punishing them.) the occupation apologized, and thereby affirmed the legitimacy of the Afghan's behavior.

Bush wasn't criticized for this for whatever reason, even though the choice between the integrity of a copy of the Koran and human lives saved because a terrorist was made to talk (at the cost of a desecrated Koran) should be trivial.

Posted by Speregum Thavitch1008 2012-02-28 18:59|| 2012-02-28 18:59|| Front Page Top

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