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Newt Gingrich Slams U.S. Apologies Over Quran Burning: ‘Our Troops Get Killed, Nobody Apologizes’

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Newt Gingrich has come out in full force against the Obama administration’s apologies to the Muslim world for an incident involving NATO forces burning a Quran. Apologies have been issued by President Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, other assorted members of the Obama administration, and U.S. commander John Allen, who is currently overseeing NATO forces in Afghanistan. Gingrich appeared on CNN today and told Piers Morgan that Afghanistan has its own apologies to make before the U.S. can reciprocate.

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Morgan played the video of Allen’s apology, and suggested to Gingrich that Obama was simply listening to his generals on the ground. Gingrich said that it’s not clear whether Obama was listening to his generals or vice versa, but the point is they should not have done it. What really set Gingrich off was that the United States was apologizing profusely to Afghanistan for the burning of several copies of the Quran, but Afghanistan has issued no apology for the deaths of two U.S. soldiers at the hands of an Afghan soldier who was involved with the riots over the Quran burnings.

Gingrich stated Obama should demand such an apology from Hamid Karzai. He pointed to the burnings of churches in Africa and the Middle East, and said no one has apologized for them yet.

“There’s a one-sided traffic in outrage which we tolerate and, quite frankly, we help enable. I’m not saying, I’m not defending burning the Quran, although the circumstances in which they were being used would strike me as in itself having been blasphemous, because as I understand it, they’re being used as part of a process of passing out messages from people who were in prison. I don’t know all the details.

“What I do know is that we have this one-sided game where our troops get killed, nobody apologizes, and now we’re supposed to be the ones on defense, and I understand General Allen’s in a difficult situation. But if President Karzai is not prepared to apologize for the killing of two Americans by an Afghan soldier, the wounding of four others, I think that this is a two-way street, and we ought to assess deeply exactly what we think is going on.”

Gingrich proposed that President Obama, General Allen, and President Karzai could have held a joint press conference where both parties could publicly apologize to each other. Morgan noted that the burning of a Quran is a highly sensitive issue in the Muslim world, recalling the events of 2010 when one Florida pastor publicly stated he would be burning Qurans and it had a profound impact on the other side of the world. Gingrich acknowledged it was a mistake for the Qurans to be burned.

But he accused the Obama administration of always assuming Americans are to blame for incidents, and the president should not be going around apologizing for the country. Gingrich admitted he’s tired of people saying Americans need to be politically correct when it comes to these matters.

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KMT32YGRHM3PKVPZVMZKIU6QOQ rp752

    Once Afghani troops invade America, overthrow the government, and kill American troops on American soil I’ll start waiting for that apology.

  • Anonymous

    How presidential.

    (warning: sarcasm may drip from your screen.)

  • Anonymous

    It’s not clear whether the apology came before or after the killing of American troops.  This story was a couple of days old before the killings, and the apology may have come prior to that happening.  But just how dumb are our military members if they can’t remember the simple rule, don’t defile the Koran? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    What a joke afghanistan is. Hundreds(at least) or rabid afghanis mobbing in front of an army chanting “death to america” and no one is getting shot.

    Newt is spot on. If you are en enemy in America, you are going to get a good deal from Barack Obama.

  • Anonymous

    This is about as logical as Sean Hannity saying that Iraq should remunerate us for invading their country. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkDhzWYObNk 

  • Anonymous

    So when did the people of Afghanistan become enemies of America? I’m pretty sure the Bush administration played up our role as “liberators” of the Afghans, who were oppressed by a small group of religious zealots. 

    Now, you’re saying that they are enemies of the country and should just shut up when we defile what they believe to be sacred objects. Do you think Americans would be pissed if Chinese soldiers invaded and then accidentally burned the Declaration of Independence? Would Americans perhaps protest this act and take to the streets?  

    You have to understand in Muslim culture that any copy of the Koran is considered sacred, so there are special ways to handle it. The book is revered as a perfect object in a way that the Bible is not among Christians, so having an invading army destroy it is understandably offensive. 

  • OSTL

     1. These korans were owned by terrorists in prison.
     2. They were used for passing info back and forth in prison.
     3. They were following the law of Islam by burning the books.

  • Anonymous

    Is there any doubt left about Gingrich’s fitness to hold high office? 

  • NeoKong

    I am so sick and tired of angry Muslims. Over in Syria Bashir Assad is gunning civilians down by the thousands and none of those hairy third world peasants have made a peep over it.  Burn a Koran and they start killing people in the streets.What other group of people do we tolerate such brutality…?What other group of people murder so many people in the streets than Muslims…?

  • Anonymous

    Why anyone ,who can think for themselves, would EVER give this sack of monkey spunk the time of day is beyond rational thought.I originally thought this windbag was just ignorant with his comments about making inner city kids janitors,but I’m now convinced this individual owes everyone in the U.S. a handwritten apology for using our oxygen to sustain his thimble brain.What an ash hole!!!!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    tell that to Bin Laden and Gadhafi

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Sad, last desperate attempt by Newt to be relevant.
    Put a fork in your campaign, Gingrich, cuz it’s done.

  • Anonymous

     I’m sick and tired of angry Jews. Cue outrage.

  • OSTL

     ” burning or burying the worn-out copies in a respectful manner is required.”

  • Mo Fokker

    Yes, Newt the ChickenHawk would rather escalate the tensions because he is a bad ass.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    I don’t understand their rage.  I looked it up and the proper way to dispose of a worn Qu’ran is to either burn it or eat it one page at a time!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

     Lesson learned should be DONT GIVE ANY KORANS TO TERRORISTS IN PRISON.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Gingrich’s attitude is the height of hypocrisy, but it is what haters like you want.

    Refusing to apologize for an insulting action may make fools like you feel better, but it will directly increase the danger to my son, who will be in Afghanistan next week.

    Do you want the deaths of anther dozen soldiers on YOUR CONSCIENCE because you have a problem with Muslims?

    You, sir, are just another blow-hard COWARD hiding behind the bluster of assholes like Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    Where do you get your info from, Jeff? This is what Fox News’ parent company is reporting. Fox can’t be wrong, can it? 

    “U.S. military officials have said the books were set aside for destruction because Afghan detainees at the Parwan military detention center at Bagram were using them to trade messages and share extremist writing. But it remains unclear why the soldiers decided to burn copies of the Quran—a particularly incendiary affront to Muslims who view the book as the sacred word of God as relayed to the Prophet Muhammad.”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204778604577243113850631098.html 

  • Чёрт Возьми

     There are not enough bad names to call a sick coward like you. How about another one of the  Conservative Puppets.

  • Anonymous

    If you’re a foam-at-the-mouth type who thinks all Muslims are evil and George Soros is the lizard spawn of Alinsky, then he’s a perfect guy. 

  • Anonymous

     and unfortunately these two brave soldiers that were killed died so cowards like you can live in your parents basement and troll the blogs making stupid comments

  • Anonymous

    the only apology i would give is located at the end of a 50 megaton nuke which should be delivered in the middle of their riot

  • Anonymous

    as the gop has clearly stated–WE ARE NO BETTER THAN THE TERRORIST AND NO HIGHER MORALITY, CONCERN FOR OTHER’S RELIGIONS OR ANY SENSE OF DECENCY…
    thanks newt and the gop “they do it so, so can we” goofballs..

  • Anonymous

    Ok, I see now where you got your info from, Jeff… Wikipedia. You conveniently left out the sentence that follows: 

    From Wiki:
    … “burning or burying the worn-out copies in a respectful manner is required. [1] Respect for the written text of the Quran is an important element of religious faith in Islam. Desecrating a copy of the Quran is punishable by imprisonment in some countries (life imprisonment in Pakistan, according to Article 295-B of the Penal Code) and has been punishable by death in Afghanistan, Somalia andPakistan.[2][3] ” 

  • Anonymous

    no that is not why they died at all..
    but if we want to follow your diatribe?
    gay soldiers have died so YOU can talk YOUR stupid nonsense while not having the courage to fight yourself..
    so sit  on your urine stained sofa and have another 108 ounce soda..

  • Anonymous

    there is no doubt he is NOT..

  • Anonymous

    what war did newt fight in?

    oh ya—guys like him only get rich off the blood of our soldiers while saying america has the same moral turpitude as terroirst..
    i just do not know why these radical righties hate america so much..
    they hate the constitution, our democracy, they spit on the bill of rights and our troops are only to secure their oil interests..
    sad–very sad..

  • Anonymous

    What utter crap. Afghanistan or it’s people were never and will never be a threat to the West. Stop being suckered by the propaganda and learn the real reason why American troops are being used as mercenaries for America’s Ruling Elite

  • Anonymous

    Google ‘Gingrich AIPAC’ and you’ll see his first loyalties aren’t with America

  • Anonymous

    You are an amazingly uninformed bigot. Turn off Fox or whatever garbage site you get your propaganda from. The Arab League has been extremely vocal about what’s going on in Syria. They have moved to censure the Assad regime. The Saudis are talking about arming Syrian opposition. 

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/24/saudi-arabia-backs-arming-syrian-opposition 

    And “hairy third world peasants”? I wonder where the Left gets the idea that the GOP is the party of racists. Just click on the comments about anyone who is black on a Fox or Daily Caller story and you will find someone on the first page making references to apes, etc. You’re just like those idiots. 

  • http://twitter.com/rick_sean rick

    The fact that this man has gotten as far as he has in politics is frightening, hopefully this primary run is the last we will hear from him

  • Anonymous

    NeoKong is a coward who would never have the guts to say anything like what he just wrote to a Muslim’s face. 

  • Clovis4

    Tough guy Newt (one man doesn’t make a difference and that is why I didn’t go to Vietnam) Gingrich has a lot of credibility discussing troops causalities and how the US deals with countries we occupying.

  • Anonymous

    The religion of peace ladies, gentleman and liberal swine.

    Islam: Making a difference one body at a time.

    Once again that illegitimate occupier in chief ( Muhammad Obama ) , bows to these third world goat f**kers killing our troops.

    Who is more pathetic in all this, you ask: The cowardly generals who are apologizing and bending over to these goat f**kers. Instead of standing with their own. Tell me you liberal swine, when was the last time you heard Obama or any of his generals stand up for the troops. Never that’s when.

    Show your support for the pussyification of America by voting Democrat 2012.

  • NeoKong

    Your son is going to Afghanistan. Not you a-hole.  Are you seriously trying to coast on his commitment just to make a point on a blog…..?
    Your son is going to Afghanistan so that makes you an expert?
    Go bleep yourself.

    No burnt book justifies the murder of anyone.
    Those two murdered soldiers were somebody’s son too.
    They were killed by a third world 7th century savage.
    Civilized people do not riot and murder in the streets.

  • Anonymous

    The Arab League want other countries to come in and intervene with Syria, Why doesn’t the Arab League send in their own soldier to stop the barbarics from killing each other.
    They themselves(Arab League) are afraid of the satanist terrorists because these terrorist are enemies from within their own tribes and your neighbor could be the hidden enemy.  These Taliban terrorists are throw-backs from the tribal mentality that does not belong in the 21 century and need to be purged from society real soon!

  • Anonymous

    And for the record there is hundreds of Koran burning videos on Youtube. I gave all of them the thumps up!!!!!!

  • Clovis4

    I’m not sure I agree with Obama apologizing after the General did, I think that was enough, but this is what happens when we invade countries and occupy places where we shouldn’t be.  Remember this as the leaders in Washington and all of the brave talking heads beat the drum to invade Iran. Young men and woman die so our brave leaders can puff out their chests and feel like men. And to have a coward like Newt, who took a pass when it was his turn to fight, piping up just highlights the problem with the chicken hawks.

    I still haven’t heard of a single justification of why we are still in that country.  How many more soldiers have to die for Bush’s and Obama’s lack of courage to get out of there.

  • Anonymous

    Well it seems to me that the Koran is worship more than Allah and the Koran is more precious than a life, which is preposterous. 

  • Anonymous

    Feeble thoughts from feeble minds.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    I was in Iraq, the Gulf war.
    I served for 22 years, and in too many other places to list for a loser like you.

    I know when to fight and when to “win hearts and minds.” A simple thing like apologizing for doing what we have always claimed we would not do is appropriate.

    Your self-image as a tough guy is not my problem, so I suppose I should not have called you a coward, but unless you are currently or soon to serve in Afghanistan or some other Muslim region, I still call you a blow-hard coward.

  • Anonymous

     Get back in your tent Occutard!!!

  • Clovis4

    We need to get out of that country and leave the “enlightend ones” to deal with their own problems.  As for Newt, not sure a guy who did everything he could to stay out of harms way during Vietnam but talks tough now is the guy to take seriously on any discussion of a combat zone.

  • Anonymous

    The answer is pretty simple. Syria and Iran are very close allies. For Saudi Arabia to attack Syria alone is to invite Iran to invade Saudi Arabia. Not all of these countries are equal militarily. Many Arab nations have very small armies, partly because that’s the way the United States wants it (we keep our troops in the Gulf and we call the shots). Iran, for many reasons, has a relatively big military that could likely defeat most other countries in the region, with the exception of Israel. 

    But if the Arab League got the United Nations to help out, then Iran would stand down instead of risking war with Germany, France, the United States, etc. 
    This isn’t about “satanist terrorists.” It’s about practical considerations. 

  • Anonymous

    You were correct in calling him a coward. 

  • OSTL

     Thanks for making my point. The pages had been written on. Feel stupid? You should.

  • Clovis4

    Newt had a good reason to save his ass from getting shot at. What a brave man.

    “What difference would I have made? There was a bigger battle in Congress than Vietnam.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/air-force-vet-ron-paul-drops-bombs-on-newt-gingrich-for-war-deferments/

  • Anonymous

    Terry, Muslims believe that the Koran is the direct word of Allah. They believe it is the pure language of god, so to say they “worship” it more than Allah is a bit off the mark. You should also keep in mind that you’re lumping together all Muslims as if they are a homogeneous group when their practices and cultures vary widely. It’s like saying that all “Christians” are the same, whether you’re Catholic, a Mormon or a gun-toting follower of David Koresh. You should read up on it before you start generalizing. 

  • Anonymous

    Wait – he says it was wrong to burn the Qur’an, but then he says it was wrong to apologize publicly for it???  Stick a fork in this guy – he’s done.

  • Anonymous

    Why does the pages being written on have to do with the fact that they were burned, Jeff? I know you want to change the subject but you were originally trying to justify burning the Koran. 

    Were they simply confiscated, that would be fine, but unfortunately someone made the poor decision to burn the books, something punishable by death in the eyes of Afghan citizens. Hopefully, it will blow over soon. 

  • Anonymous

    Back under your rock Repugnant!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I approve the burning of all korans not made of ultrasoft 2 ply tissue.

    Allah – go suk a fat cok

  • Anonymous

    Can you be honest?  The Qur’an was burned because they were told that was the correct way to dispose of desecrated copies.  They then kill our people and you are making fun of Gingrich?  Are you freaking insane? 

    We apologize for NOTHING and they kill us!  What the hell kind of insanity are you suffering from?

  • Anonymous

    You’re a disgrace.  The man is standing up for our Country while Obama is selling us down the river and you are too dumb to know what’s what?

  • NeoKong

    Why…? Because he would kill me?
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    “vocal” “censure” “talked about” yeah keep up the good work responsible arab nations

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I would be interested in your sons opinion on the issue.

  • Anonymous

    No, because you are a coward. 

  • NeoKong

    GFY

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Dont take prisoners might be worth a look also.

  • Anonymous

    What insulting action?  The insulting action that the Muslims informed the Americans of how to handle the situation.  That the only way to properly dispose of desecrated Quran’s was to burn them?  They then took that opportunity to to go back on their word (what a shock!) and attack us over what they told us we must do.

    We apologize for what?  We get killed for what?  We accept this “behavior” and keep apologizing why?  What the hell has happened to us?  

    These back stabbing pathetic excuses for humans are holding the entire world hostage regarding how they must be treated, and then they lie and we keep bending, helping, covering and making excuses for their horrific behavior!  You dare to call Gingrich an asshole for thinking a little higher of America than Obama does?  

  • Anonymous

    It’s good when people explain things like this… some are willing to go to the most shameless places imaginable to defend aggression overseas.

  • Anonymous

    I see your upping your rhetoric daily. You sound like Hitler in his last days. Good luck.

  • NeoKong

    Are you braver than me….?

  • Anonymous

    Excellent rebuttal. You really won that debate. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty sure that guy was dressed like Eva Braun when he typed that screed. 

  • Anonymous

    NeoKong, who could be braver than that scared little girl who lives inside you?

  • NeoKong

    Right.
    His son is going to Afghanistan and he was in Iraq but he has no defense of the murdered soldiers.
    His words and his claims do not match.
    Another internet warrior….?

  • Чёрт Возьми

     I already have it. His life will depend on not having the Afghans he trains wanting to kill him. Perhaps I  should also mention that he killed a few Iraqis in Fallujah, and then became the senior trainer to an Iraqi Infantry Battalion, where he saw even more combat. He knows when to kill and when to say “oops.” Just like any smart soldier does.
    I brag for my son because he wouldn’t. I don’t brag for myself because you don’t have to believe me, and my son won’t give a damn if you don’t believe my bragging about him.
    Most of all, my life is not in more danger because of your stupid desire for an apology from the people you know won’t do it.

    Maybe you are not a coward, but Newt Gingrich provably is (a draft dodger), and you think he is some kind of “leader.”

  • Anonymous

    I said the Arab League not Saudi Arabia.

    The Arab League, informal name of the League of Arab States…Its stated
    purposes are to strengthen ties among the member states, coordinate their
    policies, and promote their common interests. snip

    Personally I think the Arab world is going through an evolution and along with that growth always comes a revolution and civil wars and they should be fought by their own citizens.

    The Arab countries only end of hating the countries that try to intervene on their behalf.

  • Anonymous

    Lol thats freaking funny! Doesn’t he seem that he’s losing it more and more on a daily basis. I follow these boards quite a bit and at first he just started off as a normal dopey christian conservative. Then slowly he began to respond in a more combative way. Now he’s just gone straight nuts. I think the Russians are at his bunker and the cyanide pills are at his bedside.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. When his avatar was a cross, I always thought of him as the next Anders Breivik, the Norwegian Christian terrorist, since everything he posted referenced Christianity and violence. He’s definitely stepping up his game. 

  • Anonymous

     You seem all gungho for War.Tell me, have you signed up for any military service?Are you now to young or to old to sign up? Are you ready to be shipped over there and put your money were your mouth is?Or just sit in your chair looking at YouTube videos and spewing how unsupportive the generals are in your eyes. We have a lot of arm chair generals,you are one of them it would seem.

  • Anonymous

    Your the reason we have been in Afghanistan for over a decade, liberal swine like you want to apologize and bow down to Islam, instead of crushing them.

  • Anonymous

    Any bets that he has 15 guns and was rejected from the military?

  • Чёрт Возьми

    And what have you done to crush them?
    I mean, other than demanding an apology from all of them for the actions of a few?
    That is real brave of you, to demand an apology from the safety of your home in the good old USA.

  • Anonymous

     Get back on your rug, you muslim swine.

  • Anonymous

    The Republican/Tea Party folks all seem to be having trouble with losing ground on a daily basis.The Republican/Tea Party candidates running for President are just to awful for even them to get behind and support. Knowing President Obama is going to get 4 more years is making them  desperate.

  • Anonymous

    Watching his neighbors from his window through binoculars.

  • Anonymous

    I also notice they have a hard time with those pesky gotcha questions we are asking.

  • Anonymous

    Seek, all you have to know about this poster is his name…why he chooses to identify himself as such boggles the mind. :-)

  • Anonymous

    rotflmao….

  • Anonymous

     Hitler would be very proud of you jew hating liberals, supporting Islam.

  • Anonymous

     Get back on your prayer rug, you hodgie.

  • Anonymous

    Ya Cold your right. Cept for the fact that most jews are liberals, and my guess is that you are not to fond of Gods chosen people.

  • Anonymous

     No.He is a standing up for a country that maybe could have been popular in the 50′s. He has no place in 2012.The world keeps turning and going forward not back.

  • Anonymous

     So I take it Seek the Republican/Tea Party candidate you think is the most qualified for the office of President of the United States is Newt Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

     Apparently I have struck a chord with you, the noble liberal swine of Mediaite, by offending your religion of goat f**kers. And for that I’m greatly sorry……..that i didn’t do it sooner.

    ALSO: In order to raise your blood pressure to dangerous levels tonight. I will now declare the following:

    Sarah Palin is absolutely gorgeous, and far more intelligent than any of the liberal swine on Mediaite. 

  • Anonymous

     My thought will be with your son. I wish him nothing but good luck and safety.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how Newt would feel if they burned the bible…oh that’s right there already attacking his believe.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t even know how to spell the slur you’re trying to use. It’s “haji,” you idiot. 

  • Anonymous

     Read my old post genius. Jon Stewart is a liberal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a real Jew, who can’t stand Obama.

  • Anonymous

    When will you be going to fight?Have you signed up yet? Do you or have you had a son or daughter go to fight in this war? If you have not made any of these sacrifices you are just another arm chair chicken hawk and can go bleep yourself.

  • Anonymous

     Your the expert

  • Anonymous

    lol a real jew hmmmm. How bout jews have different opinions just like everyone else. You are such a dope, when you go on your rage please don’t hurt any innocent people just do yourself in.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing you say makes my blood pressure rise. It amuses me just like watching a chimpanzee eat his own shit at a zoo.

  • Anonymous

     That’s right occutard, fall back on your BS excuse of accusing everyone on the internet of not serving in the military.

  • Anonymous

    too bad she’s a quitter. 

  • Anonymous

     You just sound ignorant to everyone but yourself.You also have trouble with simple questions like most of the Republican/Tea Party folks including the ones you have running for office.The Sarah Palin remark really hit it home.

  • Anonymous

     Your the shit eating expert not me.

  • Anonymous

    Classic example of a moronic religious conservative. Not an original thought or comment going through your raptor size brain.

  • Anonymous

     It doesn’t matter dontcha know she is good eye candy that’s all that matters to him.

  • NeoKong

    I don’t brag on the internet and I am suspicious of those that do.
    We have a couple of dead soldiers who went to defend people they never met and somehow we are supposed to apologize to third world savages who would murder the only friends they have.

  • Anonymous

     insideguy: “You are such a dope, when you go on your rage please don’t hurt any innocent people”

    I’m not a muslim.

  • Anonymous

     So…. when are you shipping out to fight in Afghanistan?
    Maybe you can tell those generals you think are pussies to their face just how good of an arm chair soldier you are.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll never look at him again without seeing a man-baby.  Thank you, Jon Stewart!

  • expatpatriot

    There’s a one-sided expertise in diplomacy and it ain’t on Newt’s side.

    Mr. “Let’s make a bad situation worse” is just the guy we want in the White House.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Hello, Scum!
    You are oh, so brave sitting in your chair at your computer keyboard.
    You talk tough, but what are you really?
    Are you scared shitless that some Muslim will look at you cross-eyed?
    What you are really doing is showing just how bat-shit crazy guys like Gingrich are.

  • Anonymous

    No your not a muslim but you are like this guy.

    Anders Behring Breivik (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɑnːəʃ ˈbeːɾɪŋ ˈbɾæɪʋiːk]; born 13 February 1979)[1] is a Norwegian terrorist,[5][6] and the confessed perpetrator[7][8] of the 2011 attacks in Norway. On 22 July 2011, Breivik bombed the government buildings in Oslo, which resulted in eight deaths. He then carried out a mass shooting at a camp of the Workers’ Youth League (AUF) of the Labour Party on the island ofUtøya where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers.[9][10][11]Breivik was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by the court-appointed psychiatrists. According to their report, Breivik acted compulsively based on a delusional thought universe. Among other things, he alluded to himself as a future regent of Norway pending a takeover by a Templar-like organization. Imagining himself as regent, his ideas included to organize Norwegians in reservations and using them in breeding projects.[12] Other psychiatrists disagree that he is psychotic or schizophrenic.[13]Breivik’s far-right[14] militant ideology is described in a compendium of texts, titled 2083 – A European Declaration of Independence and distributed electronically by Breivik on the day of the attacks.[14][15][16][17] In it he lays out his worldview, which includes support for cultural conservatism, ultranationalism, right-wing populism, Islamophobia,[18] Zionism, anti-feminism,[19][20] and white nationalism.[21] It also expresses support for paramilitaries such as the Scorpions.[22] It regards Islam and cultural Marxism as the enemy, and argues for the violent annihilation of “Eurabia” and multiculturalism, and the deportation of all Muslims from Europe (culminating in the year 2083)[23] to preserve European Christendom.[14][24][25][26] Breivik wrote that his main motive for committing the atrocities on 22 July was to market this manifesto.[27]

  • Чёрт Возьми

     No. Gingrich is only standing up for fools like you.

  • Anonymous

     We are asking you a wonderful arm chair chicken hawk if you have any first hand knowledge of which you speak.

  • Anonymous

    With the new avatar I see him as an very elderly and always cranky Charlton Heston. 

  • Anonymous

     So you think people who really talk the talk and have walked the walk are bragging  about it when they dispute what you have to say about it all.Interesting response.

  • Anonymous

     The mission is to crush Islam?

  • Anonymous

     Gingrich isn’t “standing up” for anybody.  He’s just trying to keep in his name in the news.

  • NeoKong

    I don’t believe him.
    You said he talks the talk.
    He talks leftie talk.
    Not career military talk.
    Mr. Joe Military is more concerned with a charred book than the two young supposed brothers in arms who were murdered.
    Vets don’t brag about their bravery then call several different people cowards for a comment that defends American soldiers.
    It is not believable.

  • Anonymous

    “purged from society” …. really???  ”satanist terrorists” ….. are you sure?  

    Please explain this more evolved thought system you seem to be claiming. I can’t see it.

  • Anonymous

    Close the rock door at your cave Rethugulan!

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely.

  • Anonymous

     That doesn’t sound like a constructive way to pass the time.

  • Anonymous

    The country we are occupying has lost many thousands of innocent children who never signed up for this.  No life is more important than other.  They are all equal in Christ’s eyes.

  • NeoKong

    Blame that on your buddies the Taliban.

  • Anonymous

    This is why Republicans such as yourself have lost all credibility on foreign policy. You cowards are too scared to serve, yet you somehow know better than those who have served. Don’t you understand how this situation undermines our presence there? Of course not, you’re hiding behind your computer knowing you will never have to face combat so it’s easy for you & Newt to act all touh. Reality is that neither one of you would ever have the guts to serve. That’s all I have to say to you. Feel free to respond, but I won’t even bother reading what you have to say, ChickenKong.

  • NeoKong

    Let me play your game.
    What is your military experience…?

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    We certainly do not want our soldiers out burning Islamic holy books. Its offensive to Islamics (who we are absolutely not at war with). Newt is confusing the terrorist enemies we are at war with, with the Islamic people as a whole. 

  • Чёрт Возьми

     You seem to think that the mission in Afghanistan is genocide. Kill every last one of them. Then is when the fighting stops in your twisted mind.

  • Anonymous

    you can b’tch about muslim actions all you want and i have no use for these people whatsoever but the fact is they are raised and indoctrinated into their religious beliefs just as you moronic xtians are/were..   what about that don’t you get?

    you’re all indoctrinated and you’re all brainwashed.. xtians are no different and no better than these lunatic muslims.. you’re all alike

  • Anonymous

    It’s easy to be a right wing philosophical pundit when you have no responsibility to maintain the integrity of the mission & the safety of the troops. Fact is that an apology was needed to tone down the situation. Let’s hope the situation doesn’t get completely out of control. Doubt if Newt cares if it does though.

  • Anonymous

    You seem like a very hateful person. I could see why you’re a Republican.

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich is pandering to anti-Obama Islamaphobes such as yourself. His rhetoric will only be used to incite more violence against our troops.

  • Anonymous

    Do you think you’re cool for being a tough guy on the internet? Quite obvious that while you boast about “crushing Muslims and all those who defy the Christian God”, you’re actually stuck in your parents basement (if even that) and you can’t do anything unless mommy & daddy give you your allowance. Sad troll.

  • david r

    Gingrich stated Obama should demand such an apology from Hamid Karzai. He pointed to the burnings of churches in Africa and the Middle East, and said no one has apologized for them yet.

    Perhaps we should pack up and go home.

  • The Big Glovebowski

    Obama is not speaking for us here. The American President can send the third assistant to his official Apology Czar, but does not apologize for us.

    “We have officially lost our minds.
    The New York Times reports that President Obama has sent a formal letter of apology to Afghanistan’s ingrate president, Hamid Karzai, for the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base.

    The only upside of the apology is that it appears (based on the Times account) to be couched as coming personally from our blindly Islamophilic president — “I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. . . . I extend to you and the Afghani people my sincere apologies.”
    It is not couched as an apology from the American people, whose frame of mind will be outrage, not contrition, as the facts become more widely known.”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291925/why-apologize-afghanistan-andrew-c-mccarthy

  • Hout Bosques

    And what is that “real reason”
    It’s the same “real reason” for why the Allies ‘co-secured’ Iran during WWII; for why Ike authorized the CIA to topple the secular democratically-elected government in 1953; for why Reagan & Poppy Bush directed Rumsfeld to arm Iraq under Saddam Hussein to attack Iran & start the Ten Year War; for why Baby Bush wouldn’t let the Iranian desks at the State Department pursue the “grand bargain” Iran sought from agreeing to the US force invading Iraq in 2003 to use Iranian air space, & from actually offering up troop staging areas in Iran for that campaign; for the regime of sanctions over the last several years; & for the current war drums over non-existent Iranian nukes.

    Oil.

  • Hout Bosques

    Don’t be silly. Strategic apology is a very cheap & completely renewable form of diplomacy. 

    Newt is demagoguing, as are Romney & Santorum, & indeed the entire GOP. 

  • Hout Bosques

    Anyone can read the Koran. I’ve read the Koran, a number of times, & right through once. There’s no justification for burning it, any more than there’s justification for burning a bible, or indeed any book – & a lot less justification when it’s too piss people off needlessly.

  • Hout Bosques

    Anyone can read the Koran. I’ve read the Koran, a number of times, & right through once. There’s no justification for burning it, any more than there’s justification for burning a bible, or indeed any book – & a lot less justification when it’s too piss people off needlessly.

  • Hout Bosques

    You need a brain enema. We’re not there to benefit Afghanis & Afghanis know it.

  • Hout Bosques

    You revel in your ignorance like a pig in slop.

  • Hout Bosques

    You revel in your ignorance like a pig in slop.

  • Anonymous

    I’m extremely pleased to see that the OBAMO ‘Apology Tour’ continues unabated. Lib Media Hacks were frothing at the mouth (more than usual) when their beloved Brick OBAMO was seen to be on an ‘Apology Tour.’ He never left the tour, and I’m pleased that it is front-and-center again.

    Brick (who’s insane) OBAMO…Mmmm…mmm…mm.

  • Hout Bosques

    We’re not leaving for quite a while, & I’m figuring when Syria blows, we’re going to more involved there than we’ve been in any of Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. Look at a map.

  • Hout Bosques

    There is no way that Soros ever even met Alinsky; there’s no way even that their paths ever crossed. Remember that Alinky died in the very early 1970s, way before Soros ever became involved in currency hedging, when Soros was pretty much a junior guy in an investment bank.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    so, you think obama is just like a brainwashed lunatic muslim?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Yeah, like the Afghans don’t invade and kill people because they don’t want to. Killing people over a book more than suggests they’d kill and enslave people wholesale given a free hand.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Mirror, mirror on the wall…

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    The Taliban does what it can to hurt the West and shouldn’t be congratulated for being unable to by sheer incompetence. There is intent and the ability to carry out that intent. Shield Bin Laden and take the fall. They could easily have turned him over. They don’t understand why we were angry to the point of murder over murder in New York but I’m supposed to understand murder over a book. Get a brain.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    “Needlessly” is a slippery term when speaking of a culture offended by everything isn’t it?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Yes the Afghans love being run by multiple Hitlers and that filthy cult that blows up Buddhist statues that precede that filthy cult.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Germany didn’t pay war reparations? Rattle sabers and count up the bill.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Try cuing context: Jews in Israel don’t lob artillery shells over protests but over thousands of rockets. NeoKong is right on the money: where is the outrage over Syria in the middle east – where are the protests? No, a stupid book makes the news and and engenders your fake comparison.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    One of the stupider posts here.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Did the buffoon in the White House even KNOW two of our troops were
    killed before he went grovelling, once again, to the Islamic neanderthals who
    slaughtered 20 people over the inadvertent burning of a book?
    ————————————————————————————————————

    This was edited out of the 60 Minutes interview with President Egomaniac:

    “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our
    first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of
    Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln.” – Barack Obama

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Yeah, because that Muslim would kill over a difference of theological opinion. More idiocy at idiocy central.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Sounds like you served your conscious rather than your country. Unless you were on the Joint Chiefs.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    More appeasement from Lord Haw Haw.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Oh yeah, give it to me: vocal, vocal, vocal. That’s really making a difference – do it some more – yes, right there.

  • Anonymous

    Since we are not at war with Islam, and we did not intend to insult them, our apology is appropriate. But sure, killing people over the inadvertent burning of a book is indeed outrageous. Still, you can not blame a billion Islamics because a few “neanderthals” responded as they did. Some of our people might act bady if they thought that Islamics were burning Bibles and intending to insult Christianity, too.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Tacitly condoning and placating barbarism is what President did.

    Not a word of condemnation over the slaughter of 20 people for the inadvertent burning of a book, two of them US soldiers.

    But apologize for America? – a country he and the Mrs. have apparently disdained all of their adult lives, no problem.

    Now we know why the Democratic News Media COVERED UP 20 years of the
    President’s listening to his virulent, anti-American, Black Separatist
    mentor!

  • Mark

    Err the Afghan President always thanks the US for its sacrifices
    Newt loves to spread BS, he recently claimed that Obama had cancelled a military drill with israel when it was israel which cancelled it . He claimed that Obama did not suppor the green movement in Iran, when clearly he did but from behind the scenes.

    Why should anyone apologize when occupying troops die ? does the US President apologize when Afghan troops die ?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    “Some of our people might act bady if they thought that Islamics were
    burning Bibles and intending to insult Christianity, too.”
    ———————————————————-

    No, that’s a false equivalency, and I would categorically challenge and refute that statement. Do you really think Christians in this country would act similarly, in any way, to the carnage we’ve seen take place in Afghanistan, as well as over other incidents like this?

    And yes, it’s not the few neanderthals that are solely to blame; it’s more a culture of religious tyranny and intolerance, and a US President who remains silent over such barbarism.

  • Jardino

    When I heard that the Commander in Chief apologized for his troops screwing up, I knew the chicken hawks would pounce. The sooner Obama brings the troops home, the better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

    “killing people over a book”  Have you forgotten the history of Christianity?  How many people have been killer over that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

     Maybe they think the same of your culture.  Maybe your not right you only think you are.

  • Anonymous

    Indeed!

  • bsorin1

    Yes and what would happen if (heaven forbid) a group of Mid Eastern people had burned the Holy Bible? He would not only demand an apology but also urge that troops be sent in to punish the perpetrators, with Franklin Graham cheering in the background.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The civility associated with admitting an error should not be conditional. You apologize because it is the right thing to do… not because it grants you admittance to a world where the currency is mutual respect. Newt doesn’t understand that you can be both civil and strong. He thinks for himself and not for thoughts sake.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah burning Korans is so bad but killing people is OK. Hey you yahoos, in Syria, the sacred Muslim govt. troops are shelling mosques where they think protestors are.

  • Anonymous

    Basic human understandings that the GOP and their followers don’t just lack, but purposely trample.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    Our soldiers get killed while attacking someone else’s country. I am sure if someone invaded the US and we killed them we would say, ‘sorry we would have to kill you’. Newt knows this, of course. He also knows no politician has the guts to say it.

  • Anonymous

    It’s to Obama’s great credit that he hasn’t let that insane ravings of the Right stop him from doing what he thinks is the right thing…..If having to listen to Newt Gingrich chastise you for a fraction of a news cycle is the cost of saving American lives, Obama’s fine with that…and so am I.  Especially because the GOP has long since spent any remaining capital they had the bank of public respect.

  • Anonymous

    I’d agree that’s a little grandiose  -  but I don’t see where he’s wrong.  

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like the cowboy diplomacy of the Bush years – how is that working everyone?  we are still in a decade long war so we could look ‘tough’ like Newt.  If Newt cared about the country he would drop the issue but since it might make him look like a big tough muslim-hater he vomits out this bs.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    What’s your point?…If you have one.

  • Pablo

    No, this is what happens when not-all-Muslims get OUTRAGED!!!

    More than a dozen people died when Michael Isikoff invented a Koran flushing story for Newsweek.

    139 people died and several embassies were torched when a magazine printed cartoons of Mohammed.

    They’ve been trying to kill Salman Rushdie for 23 years for writing a book.

    These Rage Boys need a swift kick in the ass.

  • Pablo
  • DoesThisOffendYou

    How dumb are you that you can defend this raghead behavior?

  • Pablo

    What is the proper method for disposing of a desecrated Koran?

  • Anonymous

    What a mess. Afghans are in the streets chanting “Death to America”

    If only Bush/Cheney had delivered a lethal, focused strike on the 100 or so radicals who were responsible for 9-11. Instead they launched the unending War on Terror, infused with neocon hegemony . Bush unleashed this Hell on the world by punishing millions of people who had nothing to do with 9-11. They don’t hate us for our freedom – they hate us because of the actions of Bush/Cheney .

  • Pablo

    Wow, look at the sudden, deep respect for kooky religiosity!

  • Pablo

    Soros Fund Management was founded in 1970. Why is so much of what you know wrong?

  • Pablo

     No, you know what would decrease the danger to your son? Making a very pointed example of the dirtbag Afghan soldier that shot our two guys. Suggesting that he had a reasonable motive will not.

  • Just Another Blowhard

    The thing is, Iraq didn’t invade and occupy 2/3 of the middle east. They also didn’t exterminate 7 million people. They passed the kurds yes, invaded Kuwait, and tried to invade Iran, but got their asse handed to them in each instance. Plus at the time of our invasion, those were decades old.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t buy that at all. Your world, the non-middle east intervention approach, would definitely be a more dangerous one than what we have now, with the US holding all the cards and being in perfect position (with a maybe Islamic president no less) to broker middle east peace. Your way has Sadaam in power, the 911 terrorists hiding in countries that we will not go plotting the next strike, and the totalistic regimes and their dictators free to torment their own people, and kill with impugnity via civil war or oppression, with us home building barbed wire fences and shaking in our boots over border banditos with Ron Paul.

    But being in the middle east, having taken out sadaam (who violated the terms of the prior, binding peace agreement he signed when Bush 41 left him in power after the first gulf war -  and thus he had to be taken out), having taken out bin laden, and having stood in support of freedom efforts in several middle eastern countries, there is no reason what so ever to invade Iran. There is a time for war, peace, and every purpose under Heaven. But make no mistake about it, Obama is looking for peace. 

  • AMP2020

    They should have used the papers as toilet paper.

  • Anonymous

    Thought we were passed the time when anybody cared what Newt has to say.

  • OSTL

     yep, that’s exactly what patsy is sayin. ;)

  • derek crane

    Alas, we can only dream when Muslims show the respect for Christians, Jews and the Bible that they demand for their religion and the Koran. Bibles are banned in some Muslim countries while other countries under Sharia Law embrace a de facto ban. Last year, clerics in Pakistan tried to officially ban the Bible claiming it too “pornographic” and “blasphemous” for the good Muslim sensibilities. Christians in Muslim countries are vigorously persecuted, the Coptic Christians in Egypt, for example,  are subject to nearly daily attacks by Muslims. It’s never a two-way street with Muslims — we must respect and honor Mohammed but Jesus is thrown under their buses.

  • OSTL

     rex or mucious have no idea what they are even defending. funny stuff. either one of them know that when you write in the koran is considered desecrated. idiots.

  • OSTL

     The State Department has begun coordinating with
    Syria’s neighbors to prepare for the handling of President Bashar al-Assad’s extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime
    collapses,

    WMD redux? Can’t wait for the “progressives” to start defending this. LOL!

  • Anonymous

    His point is, as Newt states, it’s a two way street.  If you don’t care what’s happening in one lane, don’t complain if the same thing is happening on your lane.

  • Anonymous

    But if it had involved the burning of an American flag, it would be justification to launch nukes at Afghanistan.

  • Anonymous

    I believe the word “you’re” looking for is “YOU’RE” Skeletor! Go get “your” GED and don’t come back until you have done so.

  • Anonymous

    Link to proof that info was being passed thru Korans, please.  Everything I’ve read contains the words “suspected”, “potentially”, or “may have been a concern”.  If they confiscated all the Korans, surely they found one with writing in it as proof that this was happening.

    Just because Newt states it, and then claims he doesn’t have all the details, doesn’t make it true.

  • Anonymous

    Newt got the memo, he was handed his talking points and now we’ll hear the same thing from all of the repugs until they find something else to criticize the President for.  The fact that this act was done in their country defies common sense, of course the US has to apologize.  The President did the right thing, but of course those that hate him regardless will find fault with every word he says. Newt is a hater just like the rest of the GOP when they are out of power they can’t stand it and will do anything even root for the other side or hope the President fails which means America fails and that’s OK with the GOP!

  • Anonymous

    For someone who professes to be the scholor of the GOP (pretty low bar) Newt seems to be pretty ignorant on the ramifications of war.

  • Anonymous

    Who said anything about no intervention ? I’m all for smart intervention. There’s distinction to be made there. And yes , my way would have Saddam still in power, but over a million souls would still alive, not to mention  the countless maimed bodies still intact.  And he would still not be a threat to the US. As for not going where the terrorists are ? that’s ridiculous on its face since Obama did just that in Pakistan.  Also what you call “supporting freedom efforts”  many call propping up dictators and regimes that the people in those countries abhor.

  • OSTL

     The korans were properly disposed of. Educate yourself, please.

  • OSTL

     These anti-American “progressives” bend themselves over backwards defending muslims and the koran and don’t hesitate to slam Christians or The Bible. Go figure.

  • Anonymous

    You’re funny “properly disposed of” in Afganistan, OK.  I think the one that needs education is you, oh I forgot you’re republican and think going to college is being a snob, please!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Yeah, that will do it.
    It seems the crazier the candidates become, the crazier Pablo becomes.

  • Anonymous

    As GWB put it, we need to win “hearts and minds” over there….and you don’t do that by burning their sacred religious text.

    And, of course they don’t apologize for killing our troops….we’ve killed far more of their people than they have killed of ours.  

    Sadly too many in the GOP still don’t get it, even 10 years later.  If you want to really effectively combat terrorism, you have to win the political war just as much as (or more than) you need to win the military war.

    This is why electing a Republican president would be a foreign policy disaster. Their military-first attitude will bankrupt our country and bog us down in unnecessary wars while accomplishing none of our long-term foreign policy objectives.

  • Anonymous

    Someone should ask Newt Gingrich (or the Republican candidates):  Would you be willing to raise taxes to pay for a military intervention in Iran?  If not, how much debt are you willing to rack up?

  • Clovis4

    I’m not defending these assholes. I’m simply stating that we should not be there. Let them kill each other.

  • Anonymous

    just like anti american conservatives want religious freedom as they try to take it away from others..
    go figure!

    and for the record–most ‘christians’ have never read the bible and are only fake faith folks as muslims actually do read the koram and hold the book sacred as ordained by God..
    see?

  • OSTL

     Wow. Clearly you are on the side of the enemy. F’n wow.

  • OSTL

     Scathing rebuttal.

  • Anonymous

    you know conservative opportunists do not fight wars…they just profit from them..
    they want low pay and slow skills workers for america so they can get government money as they complain about the government…
    they want to use our young people’s blood to protect their oil..
    i know it sounds too nutty to be true..
    but that is what we have to deal with..
    ignorant, hateful cowards..

  • OSTL

     U just proved me right. U see that, right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    As of early today (Saturday), there have been a Major and a Colonel, high ranking officers, killed by radicals, for which the Taliban is claimng credit, and many more wounded because of the Quran burning. Newt should go on his trip to his Lunar colony on the moon. That’s where he belongs. The proper action in response to this is screw requesting an apology from the corrupt Karzei government. The proper action is to pack up get out, take all the freakin back given the Afgans. Leave Afganistan to the Taliban. See how they like the Taliban ruling the country. Get out now before another soldier dies needlessly. We stay 2 years or 10 years. It makes no difference. The Taliban will always be there and they’ll just sit and wait, and wait, and wait, until we pull out. Obama blundered by listening to the generals to triple the number of troops. That medieval culture will not change. The freakin Afpgans hate our occupation and we should get and let them face the consequence of the Taliban. This reminds me of Vietnam, They wanted our help in the beginning, but by the end the South Vietnamese themselves were blowing up places where our soldiers hung out off duty and conducted terrorist attacks on our own facilitities. We finally realized that it was a losing proposition and left, but only after 58,000 soldiers were killed. I would urge the youth on all levels to organize in massive numbers walk on Washington and passionately protest with signs to bring our troops home. We lost 4,500 men in an a totally useless war in Iraq and have accompllished nothing but make Iran and Alqueda the players in the region. This is nightmare and all we get is idiotic neocons like Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum talking about bombing Iran. I hope the public starts paying attention and send a message to Washington about our disasterous foreign policy. It took massive and even violant demonstrations in the late 60s to force Johnson to rethink Vietnam and finally Nixon got the message and brought the troops home. When will polticians use dead soldiers as pawns for their political gain.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, you’re pretty hilarious.  Unless you’re joking, your comments are a prime example of why this country is so dysfunctional and partisan these days.

    Please explain how not wanting to bankrupt our country on wars that won’t achieve their stating objective puts me on the side of the enemy.

    But apparently, to you, if someone questions how we use our money or how we use our military, that puts them on “the side of the enemy”?

    Why is it inappropriate to ask whether our foreign policy is actually achieving the results that we want?? (i.e.- keeping us safe).  

    Grow up.  Reasonable adults can disagree on policy without one of them being a “traitor”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     You evidently are too young to remember some Art Exhibit’s in Cincinnati during Reagan’s term in office. The GOP were outraged that an artist had placed a cross in piss. Notice the drop in support for the National Endowment for the Arts. And the Mapplethorpe exhibit, the GOP went nuts.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     You should look at what the Christians did in Europe. How many Temples of Zeus, Temples of Hera, Temples of Apollo, and all the others survive? There are many destructive things that people do in the name of religion. The Muslims were the first.
    Christians did it before them, and I’m fairly sure the Jews did it before the Christians.

  • Anonymous

    We didn’t invade Iraq because they were attacking our allies. We invaded Iraq because our government wanted to despite many signs that Hussein didn’t have a functioning WMD program. You usually don’t start a war that potentially (and in actuality) results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people if your justification for doing so amounts to mere speculation. The Iraqis never told us, “Make your best guess, but then bomb the hell out of us and create a security vacuum that will suck in hundreds of thousands of families for a decade… Make sure that most families lose a few loved ones and suffer some lifelong injuries… Be sure our public services, like schools, are severely disrupted for years… And bring in your top oil companies to bid on oil deals… And don’t worry about the cost: we’ll pay you back because we owe you for stopping us from living our normal lives.”  

    The situation was completely different from Germany. 

  • Anonymous

    Jim, you realize you don’t have to stay in the closet or lurk in airport bathrooms. Go ahead and tell your mom and she may love you anyway. 

  • Anonymous

    Newt is totally right, people’s lives are much more important than words printed on paper.  Islam is a cult religion which uses every form of intimidation to expand its reach globally.  People in the Middle East routinely burn the American flag, destroy bibles, burn churches, and kill people of other faiths and nobody says a word of apology about any of it.  It has become politically correct to bow down and kiss the feet of Islam regardless of any of the outrageous acts they commit, it is time more politicians follow Newt’s example and speak the truth regarding these fanatics and their actions.

  • Anonymous

     I agree re: a stupid book. Unfortunately it’s our worship in this nation of a stupid book that makes us and the Jews in Israel think that some worthless land is valuable and worth fighting over.

  • http://twitter.com/Effec_Tor Effector

    Here’s another American’s apology to Karzai. You’re going to like this one.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYEctbGSkkw 

  • Anonymous

    Did Charles Ulysses Feney really say that?

  • Anonymous

    This narrow minded Newt Talking.  We would feel outrage at those that burn our flag or Christians  would feel outraged if they were burning our bible.  Yes it was a mistake, but the average Afganstan  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1649356937 Ayub Jaff

    God help the USA if this idiot Gingrich is even being considered as a presidential candidate 

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Do you think “we” apologized to the killer?

     ”The perpetrator of this attack is a coward whose actions will not go unanswered,” Allen said.
    Allen is the general who is in charge there, and the books were burned by accident. It is appropriate to apologize for an accident.

    “Nato has advisers embedded in many Afghan ministries, both as trainers
    and to help manage the transition to Afghan control when the majority of
    the international forces leave by the end of 2014.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/25/two-nato-soldiers-shot-dead-afghanistan-koran-burning-protests_n_1300936.html

  • Чёрт Возьми

     She is an idiot.
    I’m sorry that Afghanistan is a “crappy little country,” too. But we are trying to get the hell out of there without having it revert to a safe-haven for terrorists.
    It is that simple.
    We will not accomplish that if we just pile on more hate.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Sure. Go ahead and take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Don’t worry about who you kill doing it. Don’t worry that it will just keep escalating.
    You want to vent your anger here? Fine.
    You want to be led by a politician who just wants your vote no matter how he gets it? Vote for Newt Gingrich.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     What is your source of knowledge on the proper disposal of the Korans?

  • Чёрт Возьми

     You want this to be an unending holy war?

  • Anonymous

    The families of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani children, women, elderly and innocent people we’ve killed might have a different take on it.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Ummm, no.  The point is that you don’t use what happened in Christianity centuries ago to mitigate Afghan behavior now.

    Unless, using your analogy, you are prepared to excuse Christianity’s history.  Then there is no excuse for the behavior of the Afghans. 

  • Anonymous

    Stupid comments like yourself puts our troops life in danger..

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, is there a bigger asshole in media than Piers Morgan?

  • Anonymous

    You are so right Mencuis, these asshole’s are out loud speakers behind computers only..

  • Anonymous

    Probably!!!! KONG

  • Anonymous

    Newt.  Just another Republican “patriot” & “Hero” who was never, ever a…troop.

  • Jardino

    Saying Muslims routinely burn Bibles is like saying the protests by Westboro are representative of all Christians. Saying Muslims routinely kill people of other faiths is like saying Catholic priests routinely engage in sexual molestation.

    It is interesting that Muslims believe Mohammad physically ascended to heaven. Christians believe Jesus physically ascended into heaven. If you are open-minded, you would see similarities between cultures.

    Gingrich is no diplomat and he would be a disaster. Some politicians can inspire. Gingrich appeals to the dark side of human nature.

  • Anonymous

    Why are we even in Afghanistan in the first place?  We’ve killed Bin Laden and I thought that was why we were there.  The Taliban has been seriously weakened and really no longer are the threat they once were.  We have American soldiers being killed, and our budget should tell us we can’t afford to be there in the first place.

  • Mari Johnson

     His comment was obviously an invitation for those guys to kill more of our troops since he apologized for the apology that stopped our troops from being killed and now once again he will get our troops killed.  What a stupid guy who has never served in the military. You are all safe and sound right here where there is no battle, you stupid,  Remember, the comment got our troops killed in the first place.  Some twisted-headed guy and definitely NO patriot at al to be so thoughtless of our troops.  Of course Gingrich, you have no kid over in Afghanistan so I guess you care less if our guys over there get mowed down for your ignorance.  How un-Godly and totally unpatriotic your comment is, Mr. Gingrich.   Your Americanism seems mighty shabby when you have make a judgment like that.

  • Mari Johnson

    And you sound a lot like a fiend of mine who is a judgmental prig.  There is no way you can make that judgment about anything anyone has said on this thread.  We do practice freedom of thought here and last i checked, all are free to express their own thoughts and you can act like the Taliban when some one expresses a thought but, thank God, we still live in a free country! 

  • http://twitter.com/mackette52 Sue

    Let them apologize to our service people who died in their stupid country

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Bush apologizes to Iraqi PM over Quran shooting incident

    05/20/2008 17:13

    The US military disciplined a sniper and removed him from Iraq after he was
    found to have used Islam’s holy book for target practice.

    http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=101752

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, what the hell!  We’re only in their country, ripping them out of their own houses, burning their holy book with which we claimed they were passing notes to each other, and somehow they take offence to this??  So we just destroyed evidence that shows they’re colluding with their Korans, huh?  Didn’t save any with the writings in them that proves they were actually doing this clandestine correspondence?

    Why didn’t we just take the books to the local mosque and have the clerics or whomever destroy them?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, Norbit.  I missed your post about the 14,000 Afghan civilian casualties prior to these 18.  I’m sure it was filled with condemnation.  And it’s nice to know you think we should have a President who isn’t tactful or doesn’t placate barbarism.  Perhaps some heads on some poles on the White House lawn?

  • Anonymous

    The same way American flags are properly disposed.  However, if it’s done in the middle of Kabul by a non-American citizen, you all seem to get upset.

  • Muhsin Qureshi

    Amazing, someone is talking about morals of Americans, I hope many of you may be decent, but as for as i know ethically & morally you people are very weak, you urinate on dead bodies, but our prophet peace b upon him told us not to hit on the face of your enemy. I dont know any muslim in tehreek e taliban pakistan many people found dead from them were non muslim. its easy to found either dead body of a man is muslim or not. afghan taliban have no way to go out from afghanistan and blow them selves in pakistan or some where else. you people are talking about morals and ethics, your men use to give private organs in your wives mouth to commence sex. your eighty percent do not marry any woman without taking her trials every making her pregnant many time, are these morals and ethics. I found most of your young guys always searching for sex and alcohol. to whom they make sex, with you daughters, mothers and sisters. i dont found you guys brave to take a religious book of some one and burn it to hit their feelings. have you listen ever that in pakistan any church ihave been burnt ever or any bible. you people are brain washed by your media. many of you have made documentries and written books that 911 was an inside job. but you poeple blindly follow your governments and media as without any prooof they made your perception.

  • Anonymous

    Who is the author of this post and what is his intention?

    Maybe I have my Paranoia-Sunday, but still…
     

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Christians would never do anything violent.

  • Dead_Air

    Newt will immediately get on making the Afghanistans apologize right after he builds his moon base and gets gas to $2.50/gallon. 

  • derek crane

    Do you realize that much of the Muslim world is at war with the infidels?  Should we just all relax and take what they give us? 

  • Чёрт Возьми

    So you do want the war to go on forever?

  • derek crane

    Only until Muslims stop trying to kill us.

  • Pablo

    Right, a country with a 72% illiteracy rate reads the Koran all the time.

    http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/me090425b.htm

  • Pablo

    “We” apologized to all Afghans. Karzai needs to see this this guy is dealt with harshly, and he needs to be shamed. Yesterday.

  • Anonymous

    “Right, a country with a 72% illiteracy rate reads the Koran all the time.
     
    http://middleeast.about.com/od..”
     
     
    pablos just said Afghanistan  is Islam,,
     
    hahahahaha
     
    that is like saying Christianity is the Alabama or west Virginia..
     
    pablo are you really that stupid?
     
    really?
     
    i guess this is why conservatives act the way they do…
     
    you really do not know what you are talking about and too lazy to make the effort to learn..
     
     
    but if you want to play a game—I will you $100 for any Christian who has read the entire bible from cover to cover and you give me 100 for any Muslim who has read the koran…
     
    I bet you do not know 1 christian who has read the entire bible…hell I cannot even find one who can recite the 10 commandments..
    So please—do not be so obviously ignorant ok?

  • Anonymous

    well if you do not believe that god is more important than life you would be right..
    but those few white dudes in front of Issa recently???
    even one of them claimed CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE READY TO DIE FOR THEIR RELIGION…
    and that is just to deny women birth control…
    now just imagine if Christians actually DID believe the Bible was divine huh?
    Islam is to Christianity as Rick Santorum is to the GOP..
    They present the TRUE beliefs that the other espouses but the ‘other’  understands how crazy their ‘beliefs’ are and really do not want to let people know what they are really about..

  • http://twitter.com/NeverFrgetRabbi Bernhard Rosenberg

    US Troops Killed Over Quran Burnings as Obama Apologizes

    our president apologized while our soldiers were
    murdered. burning the QURAN by accident is more important than american and
    other human lives. SHAME ON HIM. THIS IS NO LEADER OF AMERICA RABBI DR. BERNHARD
    ROSENBERG

  • http://twitter.com/NeverFrgetRabbi Bernhard Rosenberg

    Even if we show defference to President OBAMA for the apology regarding the
    ACCIDENTAL buring of the KORAN, we need to get out of AFGHANISTAN NOW.
    How many more AMERICAN SOLDIERS MUST DIE. ? RABBI DR. BERNHARD
    ROSENBERG

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  • http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/ Evi L. Bloggerlady

    http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/02/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-islamic-outrage.html  We are encouraging this sort of behavior by not denouncing it.  The Koran burning was inadvertent and not intended as any sort of slander to Islam.  The reaction is over the top, hypocritical, and criminal.  

  • Anonymous

    Honest?  You can’t get more honest than the facts – he thinks burning the Qur’an was wrong, but then has a problem with apoligizing for it…hello?  Maybe you’re the one that should be honest – you can’t coome to grips with the logical black hole that is Gingrich.

    Serve ‘em up…he’s done.

  • http://twitter.com/qurantutor198 qurantutor1989

    The Quran, the book of God, has been preserved by God from
    tampering and change.  Good reference for
    Muslims and non-Muslims who are searching for information about Islam.

    Okay you can burn it burst it or throw it to ocean or into
    any ditch but what about those thousands of millions hearts which has preserved
    the holy Quran in it.

     

    Learn Quran

    http://www.equrantutor.com

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ZNTUT6RWD65RB7C3VR2GRUZ4QQ Donna

    Why are you all so mean to each other?  This is a prime example…just because you do not agree with another’s perspective you start name calling and characterizing somebody you don’t even know anything about…And we wonder why we are always at war somewhere or involved in BS that starts with something as stupid as this.  No wonder our kids are killing each other….they apparently learn from their ignorant behavior from the examples “grown ups” around them spew out….

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