Obama Insists His 3-Page Apology Letter Calmed Things in Afghanistan (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 7:22 PM
Obama told ABC News tonight that his 3-page apology letter calmed things in Afghanistan.
Sure it did. This protest was from today… The 8th straight day of protests.
Students shout slogans during an anti-U.S rally in Peshawar February 29, 2012. About 60 protesters gathered to condemn the February 21 burning of copies of the Koran at NATO’s main base in Afghanistan. The placard written in Urdu reads: ” Protect Koran rally”. (REUTERS/Khuram Parvez)
Like with many things Obama has said in the past, he has nothing to back up his statements. In fact, two US officials were shot in the back of the head after his apology last week.
ABC News reported:
President Obama said his formal apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the burning of Korans by U.S. troops last week has “calmed things down” after the incident sparked an outbreak of violence across the country.
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” Obama said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Bob Woodruff at the White House. “But my criteria in any decision I make, getting recommendations from folks who are actually on the ground, is what is going to best protect our folks and make sure that they can accomplish their mission.”
The president’s comments came just hours before a formal White House dinner to honor Iraq War veterans, some of whom have also served in Afghanistan and may be redeploying there to assist ongoing U.S. military operations. Woodruff was the only journalist invited to attend the dinner.
Obama said his letter to Karzai aimed to curb further danger to U.S. troops on the ground. It reportedly expressed regret for the apparently inadvertent burning of the Korans, the sacred text of Islam, on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
Still, the president’s critics and some members of the military have questioned the appropriateness of the move, given the subsequent murder of two U.S. military officers at the hands of an Afghan inside one of the capital’s secure ministry buildings.
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Fuquay Steve commented:
Yeah he’s the one to call when anyone is wee-weed up.
shibumi commented:
What color is the sun in his world?
Kurt P commented:
Ahhh,,,So that’s why the Lamestream media quit reporting on it….
coolidgerules commented:
His cowardice emboldens them. He knows it and the moon-god worshippers know it too. All part of the kabuki theater.
This POS makes me sick
the struggler commented:
LOL…Headline and screencap…LOL
Fuquay Steve commented:
I picked a bad lent to give up bourbon.
freedom_AZ commented:
What would we do without him. I sure wish he would sit down and write an apology letter to America cause it surely would be more than three pages.
No Man commented:
I’m waiting for him to tell his lying, liberal media that he is depressed because the American people have not thanked him for $6 a gallon gasoline.
Rev. Wright ain't right upstairs commented:
Do the raving Muslims in the picture use deodorant? Phewww
Mary Leahy commented:
Obama Insists His 3-Page Apology Letter Calmed Things in Afghanistan;
*****
Whew, what a relief to know that, once again, O saved the day.
Without that letter all the Marines woulda been wiped out,
donh commented:
Obama’s apology brought MORE attention to the burning. The demostrations grew larger and more violant AFTER his apology. Iran increased its blustering at a time when tensions are already at a peak. Obama is lucky nobody set off the BIG bomb. This is how the world ends. Islam is a bomb waiting and wanting to explode.
They are LOOKING to be offended to justify their thirst for blood. The complex codex of Sharia laws give them ample opportunity to organize a kill mob.
YourMaster commented:
when will 0bama apologize to the American people for 0bamacare and $6.50 gas prices?
….it should be about 90,000 pages long….
and it should end with 0bama saying this sentence:
I resign from office immediately this whole administration is a failure to the country.
kato commented:
More inanity from the subprime blowhard.
Let’s not make this “historic” mistake ever again, America.
bg commented:
++
March 1, 2012
The US fans Afghanistan flames
[It turns out, however, that in Afghanistan today the “best” has not been sufficient. With even some members of the Afghan parliament now calling for jihad against Washington and its coalition allies, radical change is in the air. The American position is visibly crumbling. “Winning” is a distant, long-faded fantasy, defeat a rising reality. Despite its massive firepower and staggering base structure in Afghanistan, actual power is visibly slipping away from the United States. American officials are already talking about not panicking (which indicates that panic is indeed in the air). And in an election year, with the Obama administration’s options desperately limited and what goals it had fast disappearing, it can only brace itself and hope to limp through until November 2012.
The end game in Afghanistan has, it seems, come into view, and after all these fruitless, bloody years, it couldn’t be sadder. Saddest of all, so much of the blood spilled has been for purposes, if they ever made any sense, that have long since disappeared into the fog of history.]
thank you Barack Hussein Obama.. /s/
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FurryGuy commented:
If this is how things go when the Koranimals are calmed down, I’d really hate to see when they are stirred up and made really angry.
Opaobie commented:
I guess when he turns the soldiers who actually carried out the orders to burn the already-corrupted-with-jihad-messages-”Holy Qurans” over to the savages to be circus-tried, tortured, their hands cut off and their eyes gouged out and then publicly beheaded, things will REALLY calm down.
S. Wolf commented:
Afghanistan is Shiite Muslim, Hussein’s preferred brand.
‘Remember, for one second, in January 2011, before even a dozen demonstrators were killed, a small herd of camel-riding Mubarakists rode into Tahrir Square trampling some protesters underfoot, and Obama immediately flew into an apoplectic rage, gliding close to personally claiming that Mubarak was a war criminal for attacking peaceful “democratic” demonstrators.
But in February 2012, after Assad has murdered over 10,000 Sunni mostly totally unarmed civilians by lobbing barrages of multiple rounds of artillery into Homs, why is Obama all but numbingly silent in-between his own barrages of multiple rounds of 18-hole golf?
The reason: the US President Obama has artfully and silently pivoted US Middle East Policy from a Pro-Saudi, Anti-Iran paradigm to a Pro-Iran, Anti-Saudi imperative.
Crazy you say? The Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim, attending at a recent Gulf security conference with US diplomats, “undiplomatically” for over 18 minutes calmly stated, in essence:
1) “US Policy is the Number One threat” to the Gulf States;
2) America “has realized the dreams of Iran in Iraq;”
3) the US has “adopted the path and ideology of Khomeini;” and
4) the US “is no longer an ally” of the Gulf States.
To frame the instant question with a sharper point:
Why did President Obama, in his 2009 Cairo Speech, pro-actively incite and reflexively, over Saudi Arabia’s infinite anger, support the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, who was the US’ stalwart Sunni American ally for over 30 years and who acted as the sole-substantial Sunni Arab counterweight to Iran? How come the Nobel Prize-winning Obama unflinchingly allows Assad, a Shiite/Alawite, confirmed state-sponsor of terror, funneler of IEDs in Iraq which murdered thousands of US soldiers, and a stalwart ally of Shiite Iran, to cold-bloodedly massacre what is now over ten thousand unarmed Sunni Muslims?
And why did President Obama anoint the Shiite Al Maliki, a known-Iranian stooge, as the omnipotent new-Shiite Saddam of Iraq, sideline the Iraqi Sunnis, and compound the decidedly pro-Shiite tilt by tacitly handing the keys of Iraq over to Iran leaving the Sunni Gulf states to fend for themselves against the a combined Iraq/Iran Shi’ite colossus from the North and East?
Why does Obama constantly refer to the ragtag, disjointed, barely-existing Sunni al Qaeda as the “greatest threat to the US” when the Shiite Iran and its Hizbullah and Iraqi based proxies have killed many times more US soldiers and US civilians in the past 20 years than al Qaeda has, – and Iran is nearing the acquisition of nuclear bomb and constantly claiming Israel is a “cancerous tumor” that needs to be “cut out” of the Middle East?’
The Obama Domino Doctrine: Pro-Iran/Anti-Saudi
And Osama bin Laden had two Bibles when he was allegedly killed, was he reading them? Had he mellowed out to the point the Pakistanis were disgusted at his apostasy and gave Hussein his head?
WTFPRESIDENT commented:
This confirms that Barack Hussein Obama is on mind altering drugs.
PamelaofthePoconos commented:
It wasn’t his 3 page letter to Karzai, but rather the one-line email to his evah-lovin’ media saying “Kill the story.”
None of the handful of tv outlets I watch have reported anything Afghanistan for 24 hours.
squeaky commented:
i’m sure this claim will resurrect in time for the november election as in his burnishing his foreign policy credentials. along with being the man who “got” bin laden and brought down kadaffi. i’d expect afghanistan would have to be kept under wraps to enhance what a brilliant leader [gag] he is while the focus would be on iran and pakistan for the needed violence. they’re creating the new image of obama that we’ll be seeing in the coming campaign. there was a wikileak floating around yesterday about how the dems hoodwinked the 2008 election and one of the points was giving the not-so-good rev jesse a six figure amount to keep his yap shut.
squeaky commented:
“And why did President Obama anoint the Shiite Al Maliki, a known-Iranian stooge, as the omnipotent new-Shiite Saddam of Iraq, sideline the Iraqi Sunnis, and compound..” and who is this man who accompanied al maliki to washington.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/12/former-iranian-militant-visits-white-house-with-ir/
squeaky commented:
[“We’re not out of the woods yet,” Obama said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Bob Woodruff at the White House. “But my criteria in any decision I make, getting recommendations from folks who are actually on the ground...] from the guy who voted present to avoid being on record for making a wrong call as in yea or nay. it has to be difficult when your view of “being on the right side of history” is diametrically different from the people you were elected to represent.
chilipalmer commented:
BBC reports about an hour ago, 2 more NATO soldiers murdered on a base in southern Afghan. One murderer was Afghan army. The other they think was a teacher–not sure how the teacher got a weapon on base. Now total of 6 Nato soldiers murdered. That Nobel Peace Prize is really working.
Luis Torres commented:
Glenn Beck was right, the muslin “antifada” will take over the entire middle east and then Europe. Their main objective is to destroy Israel. Obama is helping the Muslims attain their objectives. Obama is no Christian; he is a leftist muslim. Our only hope is that he loses in November.
donh commented:
Have they even captured the assassin Saboor yet or is he still on the loose ? What has the US done to retaliate ? Shouldn’t Karzi have a couple dead relative funerals to attend ?
burt commented:
And the media said, “Amen Lord Obama”.
S. Wolf commented:
squeaky #24
re And why did President Obama anoint the Shiite Al Maliki, a known-Iranian stooge, as the omnipotent new-Shiite Saddam of Iraq
It could have something to do with Hussein being a Shiite himself, or so many in Iraq and Iran believe.
‘A Pew opinion poll a month ahead of the Nov. 4 election showed that 12% of Americans still thought Obama was a Muslim. There are no reliable statistics on how many in the Middle East believe that, but there’s some anecdotal evidence that the notion is especially popular among poor, undereducated Shi’ites in Iran and Iraq.
Ridha Mohammed is an exception, however: he trained as an engineer at Baghdad University and owns a flourishing plumbing business. He lives just outside Sadr City, Baghdad’s giant Shi’ite slum, where preachers at several mosques routinely assure their congregants that Obama is a fellow sectarian. “When Obama won,” says Mohammed, “it was a big day in Sadr City. Many people felt, Now we have a brother in the White House.” (Sadr City — estimated pop. 2 million — is a bastion of anti-Americanism, where the radical Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, hold sway. Few Americans would dare visit the neighborhood without a massive military escort.)
The notion that Obama is a Shi’ite may be traced to Iran. In the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, state-run papers published articles claiming that the Democratic nominee’s paternal ancestors had hailed from southwestern Iran. In reality, of course, Obama’s father and his ancestors came from Kenya, where Shi’a Islam is rare. Most Kenyan Muslims are Sunnis and leaven their faith with pre-Islamic African traditions and beliefs. Obama himself has said he has no idea if his paternal grandfather (who converted from Christianity) was Sunni or Shi’ite.’
Baghdad Scuttlebutt: Pssst! Obama’s a Shi’ite
caveat: source is Time which dismisses it as conspiracy theory in leftist taqqiya mode.
S. Wolf commented:
re #30
‘We are being duped by our current unvetted president, Barack Hussein Obama, who is using an old Shiite custom of Taqiyya (deceive your enemies).
Obama Sr. was a Shiite as is our president. Shiite Muslims are 15 percent, Sunni Muslims are 85 percent of the Middle East total. Iran is Shiite. Obama’s friendship with Ahmedinejad as he slaughtered Iranian students and now protesters in Pakistan (Sunnis). Obama leads the charge with U.S. blood and money toward his Shiite caliphate. One only needs to do the research.
Obama is supporting the “rebels,” better known as the Shiite-dominated Muslim Brotherhood. Note how he ushers in quick elections where only the Muslim Brotherhood can win using U.S. dollars. Our illegal involvement in Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Tunisia and now Pakistan moderate Sunni-led governments, while Obama pulls out of Iraq and overlooks Iran’s (Shiite) threats show Obama’s loyalties. Now Israel will be fully exposed to barbarian elements, and Obama will, with our blood and money, destroy Israel. Osama Bin Laden (ex-leader of “al-Qaida,” radicalized Sunnis, whom Obama puts forth as the terrorists of the world) and family was the beginning of the dismantling of Pakistan, not to avenge the heinous murder of 3,000 U.S. civilians (very clever). Obama’s administration pays the Shiite Muslim Brotherhood as advisers and are on the payroll of the U.S.
Obama is systematically destroying the United States through monetary waste, dependency on Mideast oil, job loss, etc. which lays the groundwork for a global Shiite takeover . Are we using our best and bravest resources along with all of our money to render us powerless to build Obama’s Shiite Caliphate throughout the world?
This will be the most clever terror plot devised to date: Much more successful than 9/11, and right under our noses.’
Letter To The Editor
Yup.