
Afghan protesters throw rocks towards a water canon near a U.S. military base in Kabul February 22, 2012. Several people were wounded on Wednesday, witnesses said, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered in a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, were burned at NATO’s main base in Afghanistan. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
After Obama apologized to Afghanistan for a torched book with extremist writings, Sarah Palin called on Afghanistan to apologize for the two soldiers killed today.
From her Facebook page:
Obama apologizes for the inadvertent Koran burning this week; now the U.S. trained and protected Afghan Army can apologize for killing two of our soldiers yesterday.
For a supposedly stupid woman Sarah sure gets it right most of the time.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 51 Comments
Pragmatic commented:
Go Sarah go!
wanumba commented:
Thank YOU Sarah Palin.
Put a stake in the narrative.
bg commented:
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Amen Sarah!!
that and a lot more..
Gingrich & West 2012′s Best!!
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DaMav commented:
Sarah Palin certainly speaks for me on this one!
Gary commented:
Thank you Sarah
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
If I were an officer in some sort of command capacity in Afghanistan, I’d unofficially advise the Afghan officer corps that if they or ANY of their underlings pull some sort of jihadi stunt, or try to exact revenge for some sort of perceived religious slight, not only will we deal with them, but that their families will pay a price as well. What that price would be would be left unsaid. I’m willing to bet that those guys then would be a lot less willing to make spur-of-the-moment decisions to shoot up Americans for whatever reason.
My motto would be: We can be allies, but if you stab us in the back, expect it to be answered.
BetseyRoss commented:
Right on, Sarah! Mama Grizzly on the attack. Enough of this really stupid appologizing. Once is enough. George Allen: take note, Once is enough.
Lady Mondegreen commented:
Does anyone think the Afgans are listening? This is purely for domestic consumption.
davidt commented:
Palin is the maam.
the real wow commented:
Thank you Sarah for having the balls our men don’t have.
democraps suck commented:
The only mooslum that apologizes is odumbo
Bluebay commented:
The Palin and Gingrich clearly identifying our enemies foreign and domestic.
Emilie Green commented:
I would call muslims animals, but I have too much respect for animals.
Follow the koran, and become stupid and incredibly anti-social.
clarityrising commented:
I’d be surprised if we actually burned any Qu’ran. Why would we have them to burn? W’re not printing and distributing them. I’d bet Taliban or sympathizer planted the books to be burned so they could foment unrest.
bg commented:
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#9 February 23, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Lady Mondegreen
perhaps, perhaps not..
however, they are words calling for the justice
we the people have been sorely deprived of..
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StrangernFiction commented:
Trouble telling the peaceful Mohammedan’s from the radical ones. Who knew?
Beverly Perlson commented:
Thank you Gateway Pundit for posting this and thank you Sarah Palin. Please pick up your phones tomorrow folks and call your legislators and ask them where is the apology for the murder of our two Brave Soldiers?!!!!! Every Congressman and Senator who supports this mission should be in front of a camera, all over the TV, demanding an apology to those two mothers whose Sons were murdered by these maniacs over there. Call the White House, demand the President call for an apology!!!
Please pray for our Troops over there in Afghanistan. The one thing they need to hear now is outrage from our legislators over this latest murder of our troops! The one thing they need to hear is support from our Congress and Senate for them!
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
bg commented:
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clarityrising #15 February 23, 2012 at 4:54 pm
terrorists in captivity were using them
to secret messages to one another..
the Korans should have been turned over to the government to be held
as evidence against the perpetrators at trial.. which leads me to believe
maybe this was done to take measure of the reaction to the burning no
matter the excuse.. ergo i agree, that’s if they ever actually burned any
Korans to begin with.. but alas, that’s pure speculation on my part, as
other than what has been reported., i haven’t a clue..
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kozanne commented:
#16 bg
YES! The koranimals could care less about justice for the American people. It is a LEADER like Sarah Palin who keeps the American people holding their heads up whilst their own ‘government’ is doing it’s damndest to bring this country to its knees.
I could care less about the koranimals, but I care A LOT about American pride. And Sarah keeps the flame burning.
Sigh…….what might have been
saveus commented:
Finally someone who stands up for the USA!
texas commented:
Once again, God bless Sarah Palin!! She is the only voice in GOP i hear speaking up for this!! ( I’ve been thinking the same thing all day, why don’t Afghans apologize! )
This is in response to Jim’s snark: Yay for the little woman, IMHO She gets it right ALL of the time!!
Kathteach commented:
Thanks Gateway Jim for posting this – reminds us all of the hypocrisy – the insane hypocrisy – we are suffering under this current President.
It used to be a BIG DEAL to kill American troops but …..somehow ……very weirdly…..the world has flipped and we apologize profusely for accidentally burning a holy book or two of this region (as if they would not have a BONFIRE of Bibles if given the texts – in a New York minute they would burn them in front of the world)…..
and two American soldiers died.
If Obama does not speak to this outrage, it completely confirms his allegiances (as if we did not always know after three years of bowing and apologizing and doing whatever it takes to appease the Islam powers that probably paid for his last campaign and will be paying for his current one).
You know – Tony Rezko (Syrian?) from Chicago (the finance wizard/ fundraiser for Obama before 2008 who is still in jail in Chicago – I Think?)
Come on, folks. Let’s learn from last time and make sure we end the travesty of this current White House Occupation.
Thanks as always, Sarah Palin, for grounding us to our American soil.
bg commented:
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did Obama ever speak out about the Seals
being downed by the Taliban in A-stan??
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aprilnovember811 commented:
Good for her. My husband and I were eating dinner the other night, when we heard this General apologizing. It was disgusting. He embarrassed himself and the country. He is an Obot. Some of these Generals have taken orders for so long, that they have lost their ability to reason. To distinguish from right or wrong.
He is no George Washington or Patton. It’s a disgrace.
aprilnovember811 commented:
#24 February 23, 2012 at 5:39 pm
bg commented:
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did Obama ever speak out about the Seals
being downed by the Taliban in A-stan??
Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood he put into our DHS and State Dept. are the ones who fingered the Navy Seals and also arranged for their murder.
Just like the shooting of the judge and Gabrielle Giffords in AZ. This was all orchestrated by Obama and his ilk. Sheriff Dupnik knew of this mans mental health history. They recruited him to do it, and orchestrated the blaming of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.
aprilnovember811 commented:
#24 Obama the “Christian” prays with this other Christian LOL every day. They set up those seals. Obama’s a stealth Jihadist. He works for both Ayers and the Muslim Brotherhood. His biological father Malcolm X was a Muslim too.
Muslim Brotherhood In Our White House – Vetting Obama
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/08/muslim-brotherhood-in-our-white-house-–-vetting-obama/
regularguy commented:
Quite honestly, I’d like the rest of world, including Afghanistan, to either apologize to us for being our enemies, or apologize to us for having bail them out all the time with our military or our money. The rest of the world can grow up for once and provide for their own security needs, most certainly mohammedans who hate our guts anyway. Eff them.
wanumba commented:
#9 February 23, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Lady Mondegreen commented:
Does anyone think the Afgans are listening?
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To you? Nope. You don’t say anything except Democrat talking points. What a know-nothing tool you are, hanging around trying to deny reality.
Patty commented:
POKANE, Wash. — GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expressing outrage over a U.S. apology to Afghan authorities for burned Qurans on a military base.
Gingrich lashed out Thursday at the Obama administration for the formal apology. Copies of the Muslim holy book were found burned in a garbage pit on a U.S. air field.
President Barack Obama’s apology was announced Thursday morning. A few hours later, news organizations reported that an Afghan soldier had killed two U.S. troops and wounded others in retaliation for the Quran burning.
Campaigning in Washington state, Gingrich says Afghan President Hamid Karzi owes the U.S. an apology for the shootings and that the Afghans “do not deserve the apology of the United States.”
The Obama administration says the apology is appropriate given the religious sensitivities involved.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gingrich-obama-apology-for-quran-burning-in-afghanistan-an-outrage-in-light-of-deaths/2012/02/23/gIQAmfzOWR_story.html
Patty commented:
The coalition said the investigation is still under way.
The unrest started Tuesday when Afghan workers at the sprawling American base north of Kabul noticed that Qurans and other Islamic texts were in the trash that coalition troops dumped into a pit where garbage is burned. Some Afghan workers burned their fingers as they tried to salvage some of the books. Afghan government officials said initial reports indicated four Qurans were burned.
The materials had been taken from a library at Parwan Detention Facility, which adjoins the base, because they contained extremist messages or inscriptions. Writing inside a Quran is forbidden in the Islamic faith, and it is unclear whether the handwritten messages were found in the holy book or other reading materials.
But the Muslim rioters don’t seem to be upset about that.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/obama-apologizes-to-afghans-for-violating-sharia-provisions-regarding-quran.html
More on above site.
proudredneck commented:
Gotta love Palin…but Newt said the very same thing!!http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2850494/posts……
proudredneck commented:
sorry the link doesn’t seem to be working, but you can go to Freerepublic.com and read it for yourself.Newt said the very same thing.
Peggy commented:
Stop the execution of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani!
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=news&id=1142
And may God rest the souls of our two murdered soldiers.
MN Jim commented:
The part of the story that seems to be lost is that we provided Korans to detainees. Why is beyond me. The detainees were writing secret messages to each other in the Korans. Writing in a Koran is an offence to Islam. We burned the Korans, which apparently is the correct way to dispose of them. The story went bad when the locals found them in a burn pit.
Now all you read is that we are horrible for burning their “holy” books.
For a culture that claims to forbid idol worship, the Muslims sure do a lot of idol worship.
There is a youtube video showing Packistani Muslims fishing pages of the Koran out of the sewer. Apparently the Packistani Muslims use it for toilet paper.
Patty commented:
#34 February 23, 2012 at 5:59 pm
proudredneck commented:
Posted this, it is above your post.
Patty commented:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/gingrich-first-to-hit-obama-for-afghanistan-apology/
Gingrich first to hit Obama for Afghanistan apology
Patty commented:
#36
Right, there was know that in some of the Korans, not necessarily these there were messages on where our troops were and when to fire.
Bluebay commented:
Beware:
Off topic, but has anyone here discussed awareness of the Romney/Paul alliance?
I saw this article few weeks ago and heard various rumors, but Mark Levin is really lazered on this issue right now. A deal with Rand Paul as mutt’s veep.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-paul-and-romney-a-strategic-alliance-between-outsider-and-establishment/2012/01/20/gIQAf8foiQ_story.html
Just thrilling I tell ya.
Patty commented:
Bluebay
#40
People have been talking about the coziness at the debate last night. Romney would need the youth vote and Paul has quite a few of them. ODD COUPLE
Patty commented:
#34 February 23, 2012 at 5:59 pm
proudredneck commented:
THANK YOU, THOUGH. Didn’t mean to be arrogant. Sorry.
proudredneck commented:
Patty.. sorry i over look your link…It’s been a busy day for me.
sarah2012 commented:
Let’s see, just this month Islamists burned down churches in Egypt & Nigeria (not to mention the Christians that wee murdered in the fire), ransacked & destroyed a Buddhist Museum w/ ancient Hindu & Buddhist artifacts in Malaysia & now they protest over a discarded Koran that calls for death to the infidels…& the topper is Obama shames the US w/ an apology.
Yet, finally, we have a serious,honorable & courageous woman w/ 20 years of political/executive experience who speaks common sense to the pusillanimous establishment & demands respect for our country, & we shamefully let the Leftist media & RINOs define & slime her. Incidentally, Sarah Palin also has skin in the game, so to speak, w/ more standing to comment than Obama our failed Commander in Chief, as her son Track was just deployed to Afghanistan this weekend after already serving in Iraq.
PimpAllah commented:
Way to Go! Sarah Palin. Way to Go!
sara2012 commented:
Let’s see, just this month Islamists burned down churches in Egypt & Nigeria (not to mention the Christians that wee murdered in the fire), ransacked & destroyed a Buddhist Museum w/ ancient Hindu & Buddhist artifacts in Malaysia & now they protest over a discarded Koran that calls for death to the infidels…& the topper is Obama shames the US w/ an apology.
Yet, finally, we have a serious,honorable & courageous woman w/ 20 years of political/executive experience who speaks common sense to the pusillanimous establishment & demands respect for our country, & we shamefully let the Leftist media & RINOs define & slime her. Incidentally, Sarah Palin also has skin in the game, so to speak, w/ more standing to comment than Obama our failed Commander in Chief, as her son Track was just deployed to Afghanistan this weekend after already serving in Iraq.
jainphx commented:
This woman shows more guts and brains than the whole establishment, my if only it wasn’t too late. I would love to address her as Madam President.
Nosmo commented:
No Jim…Sarah gets it right ALL of the time.
Ron? commented:
# 38 Patty commented:
Absolutely correct. Gingrich is the best GOP candidate out there. Santorum is flailling and rOBAMAney is where on the issues this week? Gingrich would spank Toonces’ @$$ in a debate forum. Even with softballers from the LSM. A lot of people have already let the media set the narrative on this “birth control” issue. I saw some dumbass lib on fox yesterday saying that Obama has and is fixing the economy and republicans are worried about birth control.
Ron? commented:
# 46 Sarah2012: Catchy moniker but we’ve been over this already. Sarah 2012 won’t happen she would lose. I admire yor devotion though. Maybe she is the best the GOP has to offer, but the sad fact is that the hit jobs done on her since ’08 left a mark that still smarts. Maybe 2016.
bg commented:
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kozanne #20 February 23, 2012 at 5:09 pm
as me dear gram used to say, shoulda woulda coulda..
i’m just thankful we still have Sarah to help hold US up so to speak..
Patty #31 February 23, 2012 at 5:52 pm
& Patty #38 February 23, 2012 at 6:03 pm
imho it doesn’t matter who said it first, more should be saying it..
it should be echoed by all around the globe, as the US isn’t the only
ones fighting and dying to protect the world from barbaric terrorism!!
Peggy #35 February 23, 2012 at 6:01 pm
thank you..
proudredneck #33 February 23, 2012 at 5:56 pm
thanks, i wouldn’t have noticed Patty’s link had yours not worked..
Bluebay #40 February 23, 2012 at 6:11 pm
oh yes, even the lib media is starting to take
note of how Paul attacks “Mitts” opponents..
re: sarah2012 #44 February 23, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Amen, say it again..
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bg commented:
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aprilnovember811 #28 February 23, 2012 at 5:47 pm
bit more here, in connecting links, and threads.. ..
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VanZorge commented:
screw afghan
CT commented:
One question, is the murdering raghead pos still breathing?
Ariel commented:
Once again Sarah Palin leads the fight to restore America’s honor. At least Newt Gingrich had the good sense to follow up on her rebuke of the administration for not insisting on an apology from the Afghan Army for the murder of two of our soldiers. My question is where are the other candidates on this issue?
Sarah Palin @SarahPalinUSA
Obama apologizes for the inadvertent Koran burning this week; now the U.S. trained and protected Afghan Army can… fb.me/1IJKD7Jdt
2:09 PM – 23 Feb 12 via Facebook · Embed this Tweet
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Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich
It is an outrage that on the day an Afghan soldier murders two American troops, Pres. Obama is the one apologizing.
4:48 PM – 23 Feb 12 via web · Embed this Tweet
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WillofLa commented:
Aren’t our troops under attack? Shouldn’t they be defending themselves from attack? And they are being told to use water? How about 7.62 M-60 machine gun? Wouldn’t that stop the attacks? Because water isn’t doing anything but making them madder because our troops won’t fight right. See, Muslims like blood. They like body parts flying off in all directions, they like armed conflict, and stress off the scale. And then more blood, and more blood. That way they know they are serving Muhammed in a way that would be pleasing to him since he sent so many follower’s to their graves, no water is going to do that unless the water cannon knocked someone into something and it killed them accidentally.
No, open fire on them and drive them away. Of course the Taliban in Iran is talking about killing those people they captured in revenge for the burning of the Koran’s. The Taliban says burning Koran’s is a offence that requires death to pay for doing such a terrible crime against Allah. Okay, Taliban, go ahead and kill that Senator’s son and see if you don’t get a real mad letter from him!!
jb commented:
Lessee . . .
We’re over in Afghanistan killing their civilians by the hundreds and thousands, long after the Saudi Arabian Bin Laden is dead, and we are such mental midgets that we believe that American exceptionalism makes two American lives worth thousands of Afghani lives.
No Christian with a hint of proper theology would endorse what Palin said, nor our policy.
Sheesh!
kozanne commented:
#35 Peggy, I have been praying for the pastor and his young family. May God grant them all peace in the knowledge that someday, these wrongs will indeed be avenged. I believe that, and I know the family does, too.
WillofLa commented:
And, no Sarah, it’s not slaugter, it’s just plain murder. But, hey, what else is new? Sometimes I wish we did have some way to transport men and equipment that we developed from the crashed flying sausers in 1947 and since that we had developed in secret that no one knew about. Of course the moment we used it, it wouldn’t be a secret anymore, but I can wish can’t I? That way we could disappear in the middle of the night, and the next morning when the demonstrator’s came back every trace of our being there would be gone. That would be so Hollywood, but cool. They find the gates ajar, they open them up and there’s nothing left. Wouldn’t that scare the living hell out of them. They would be thinking the Devil stole us away, you know they think we’re the Great Satan anyway. But let them think about that for awhile. And then they find this big box out in the middle of the encampment…..ticking. And they find a door on it and they open it up and look inside. They shine a flashlight inside and there would be a big nuke with three seconds left on the clock….tick, tick, tick…..boooooom!!! No more Afghanistan!
bg commented:
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OT..
Zuhdi Jasser: EMET panel on OIC Istanbul Process
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bg commented:
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jb #58 February 23, 2012 at 9:27 pm
links to back your pathetic speil
up please, thankyouverymuch..
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mackykam commented:
#58:
You are right! 2 dead american soldier lives are not equal to thousands of dead afganis.
THEY ARE WORTH THE DEATH OF MILLIONS OF AFGANIS AND I HOPE WE KILL MILLIONS OF THEM! They are all worthless scum with a subhuman culture and pagan religion.
Lord Sandwich commented:
Again . Palin leads . Others follow.
S. Wolf commented:
That’s the truth, Mrs. Palin. Afghanistan should apologize to America, and so should Hussein bin Obama.
‘Multiple reports now circulating of President Obama quickly taking the side of Muslims against American soldiers who were simply following orders to remove and burn materials taken from terrorist detainment cells in Afghanistan – including already defaced copies of the Koran.
While there exists an argument that Barack Obama is simply hoping to diffuse the agitation among Afghans that the destruction of some copies of the Koran has caused – that argument falls short of explaining the aggressive tone the Commander in Chief so quickly took against the very American soldiers his administration so often uses as political props when the opportunity presents itself to the Obama re-election campaign. Those soldiers were simply following orders – and initial reports are already suggesting those copies of the Koran that were destroyed had already been defaced by the captured terrorists who were using them to communicate to each other – sharing the Koran within the prison facility:
A military official said the materials were removed from the detainee center’s library because they had “extremist inscriptions” on them and there was “an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications.
That information – which certainly the president is aware of, did little to lessen his promise to Muslims that he would seek out and punish those Americans responsible:
What an honor and privilege it must be for those soldiers to serve this Commander in Chief who so quickly turns against them in order to seek favor among the very enemies those soldiers are directed to defeat. And don’t forget – it was not so long ago that senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett – the same one who political insiders deem the defacto president within the Obama White House, told a high ranking U.S. military officer to go fetch her another drink during an exclusive D.C. dinner party.’
Obama Threatens To “Hold Accountable” U.S. Soldiers for Burning of Koran
We all know Hussein will always side with Muslims against Americans.
wanumba commented:
#58 February 23, 2012 at 9:27 pm
jb commented:
Lessee . . .
We’re over in Afghanistan killing their civilians by the hundreds and thousands, long after the Saudi Arabian Bin Laden is dead, and we are such mental midgets that we believe that American exceptionalism makes two American lives worth thousands of Afghani lives.
No Christian with a hint of proper theology would endorse what Palin said, nor our policy.
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No Christian would endorse your blatant lying, you moral-less piece of slime. Can you hold any real job with that kind of duplicitous, untrustworthy behavior?
WHat you think the lying can’t be checked? We can PHONE Afghanistan. “Yo, are the DEMOCRAT PARTY LEFT CLAIMS that “hundreds of thousands of Afghanis being killed” actually true? Your streets filling with corpses everywhere, cities collapsing ete etc etc that would be logical consequence of this moronic and very nasty CLAIM?
“No. What sort of lying ass is saying that?”
Someone who is enabling our enemies by passing on their propaganda. Can’t get any lower on the slime scale than a sell-out.
BlackBush commented:
Burn baby burn!
valerie commented:
#9 February 23, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Lady Mondegreen commented:
We understand that you are an Obama supporter, and that your objective is to quell support for any Republican action or statement. You’re in over your head, here. Some of us also follow news an commentary via overseas bloggers, as well.
I’ll grant that Sarah’s primary audience is where her constituency resides. But if we can hear demands from Afghanistan for an apology, the Afghans and others (cough, cough, the Egyptians, for example) can hear us.
CK commented:
I always liked Sarah Palin for having a backbone to tell people how it is. First they say it was accidental not they’re punishing those troops to please who? The Taliban, Radical Islam, that pitiful excuse of a being Karzai? Thank You Mr. Obama/Libs for showing how weak you always make America look towards our enemies! Next time Mr. Obama, maybe send your apologies in person so they maybe have more effect? Don’t forget to bow down aswell. Sad really for how many years radical muslims used our bibles for toilet paper & burned them before this incident occured. And they throw a fit over a accident, unless of-course some afganis put korans in piles on purpose. We’ll never know will we’ll never know.
@ Blacque Jacues Shellacque
I like how you think. I have ideas myself. Overseas & those in this country. As for those in other countries, they’re on their own.