Gingrich: Apology To Karzai An Outrage...

[paulitician]

I don't find myself agreeing with Gingrich on much, but i do agree with him on this one. These miserable cretins murder two of our soldiers and all the President can muster is a pathetically feeble apology? How bout telling them if they don't clear away from our Base wiithin 24 hrs., they're gonna get cleared? But an apology? Really?


GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday a U.S. apology to Afghan authorities for burned Qurans on a military base was "astonishing" and undeserved. Gingrich lashed out at President Barack Obama for the formal apology after copies of the Muslim holy book were found burned in a garbage pit on a U.S. air field earlier in the week

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 said Afghan President Hamid Karzi owes the U.S. an apology for the shootings.

There seems to be nothing that radical Islamists can do to get Barack Obama's attention in a negative way and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States period," Gingrich said.

"And, candidly, if Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, doesn't feel like apologizing then we should say good bye and good luck, we don't need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody who doesn't care."...


Later Thursday, Gingrich continued his criticism of Obama's foreign policy during a rally in the town of Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho, a stop in one of the 10 states that votes on March 6. He was spending Friday in Washington state, which holds caucuses a week from Saturday.

"This president has gone so far at appeasing radical Islamists that he is failing in his duty as commander in chief," Gingrich said.

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[paulitician]

What about our two soldiers they just murdered? Why hasn't this President addressed that yet? I'm very disappointed in him.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

and what would Gingrich have done? scream on tv at the fanatics? bomb them? kicked all muslims out of USA? held a special address? claimed WMDs? what?

of course he is going to criticize. the candidates will try any strategy to see what 'the people' respond to. gingrich heard that there is outrage, so he'll jump on the outrage bus.

 

[bodecea]

Yeah, I wouldn't have apologized either.

 

[rightwinger]

Gingrich would have spit in their eye and told them about American Exceptionalism

 

[iamwhatiseem]

and what would Gingrich have done? scream on tv at the fanatics? bomb them? kicked all muslims out of USA? held a special address? claimed WMDs? what?

of course he is going to criticize. the candidates will try any strategy to see what 'the people' respond to. gingrich heard that there is outrage, so he'll jump on the outrage bus.

Irrelevant.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Gingrich would have spit in their eye and told them about American Exceptionalism

The thread was about what Obama did.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[Decepticon]

CONZ would rather appear "tough" than work practically with Afghanistanis .
Very manly rhetoric, but in the REAL WORLD, that sort of black and white worldview works against your own self interests.

Say we demand an apology for our two dead soldiers and we don't get it? What then? We pull out? The Taliban takes power and we're RIGHT BACK where we stared before 9-11.

Good job. Way to throw away ALL THAT MONEY and ALL THOSE LIVES so you can appear "tough" and manly while actually working against your own self-interests.

 

[paulitician]

CONZ would rather appear "tough" than work practically with Afghanistanis .
Very manly rhetoric, but in the REAL WORLD, that sort of black and white worldview works against your own self interests.

Say we demand an apology for our two dead soldiers and we don't get it? What then? We pull out? The Taliban takes power and we're RIGHT BACK where we stared before 9-11.

Good job. Way to throw away ALL THAT MONEY and ALL THOSE LIVES so you can appear "tough" and manly while actually working against your own self-interests.

Our President and the Afghan Government are already close to a deal which will give the Taliban control of vast portions of Afghanistan. So that sad & catastrophic sell-out is already well-underway. These savages murdered two of our kids. So fuck Obama's apology.

 

[Decepticon]

CONZ would rather appear "tough" than work practically with Afghanistanis .
Very manly rhetoric, but in the REAL WORLD, that sort of black and white worldview works against your own self interests.

Say we demand an apology for our two dead soldiers and we don't get it? What then? We pull out? The Taliban takes power and we're RIGHT BACK where we stared before 9-11.

Good job. Way to throw away ALL THAT MONEY and ALL THOSE LIVES so you can appear "tough" and manly while actually working against your own self-interests.

Our President and the Afghan Government are already close to a deal which will give the Taliban control of vast portions of Afghanistan. So that sad & catastrophic sell-out is already well-underway. These savages murdered two of our kids. So fuck Obama's apology.

How many innocent civilians have we killed in Afghanistan?

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

 

[g5000]

I don't find myself agreeing with Gingrich on much, but i do agree with him on this one. These miserable cretins murder two of our soldiers and all the President can muster is a pathetically feeble apology?

Did you even read your own post? You got the sequence of events backwards.

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.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

and what would Gingrich have done? scream on tv at the fanatics? bomb them? kicked all muslims out of USA? held a special address? claimed WMDs? what?

of course he is going to criticize. the candidates will try any strategy to see what 'the people' respond to. gingrich heard that there is outrage, so he'll jump on the outrage bus.

Irrelevant.

It is very relevant. The OP is about Gingrich criticizing Obama's actions. I am addressing Gingrich's motivation.

As an aside, there must be four threads regarding Obama's actions. This one is different.

 

[g5000]

Heh. We make fun of ragheads getting mad about someone burning the Quran in a disrespectful manner. Meanwhile, we demand an actual Constitutional amendment so we can send people to jail for burning the flag.

 

[paulitician]

CONZ would rather appear "tough" than work practically with Afghanistanis .
Very manly rhetoric, but in the REAL WORLD, that sort of black and white worldview works against your own self interests.

Say we demand an apology for our two dead soldiers and we don't get it? What then? We pull out? The Taliban takes power and we're RIGHT BACK where we stared before 9-11.

Good job. Way to throw away ALL THAT MONEY and ALL THOSE LIVES so you can appear "tough" and manly while actually working against your own self-interests.

Our President and the Afghan Government are already close to a deal which will give the Taliban control of vast portions of Afghanistan. So that sad & catastrophic sell-out is already well-underway. These savages murdered two of our kids. So fuck Obama's apology.

How many innocent civilians have we killed in Afghanistan?

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

Yes, so lets get the Hell out of there right now. Why should more of our kids be slaughtered over there for nothing? Our own President has already sold them and our nation out. The Taliban will be given half of Afghanistan. So to Hell with his apologies, lets just get the Hell out of there.

 

[paulitician]

Heh. We make fun of ragheads getting mad about someone burning the Quran in a disrespectful manner. Meanwhile, we demand an actual Constitutional amendment so we can send people to jail for burning the flag.

Except in this case, two of our Soldiers were brutally murdered by those 'ragheads.' So your analogy may make you feel warm & comfy, but it's not a valid analogy.

 

[Liability]

Rather than "apologize" why wouldn't an American President forthrightly note how stupid it is to kill people over the destruction of a work of dopey fiction?

 

[paulitician]

Rather than "apologize" why wouldn't an American President forthrightly note how stupid it is to kill people over the destruction of a work of dopey fiction?

Or instead of apologizing, how bout telling the miserable cretins they have 24 hrs. to clear away from the Base, or they will be cleared away?

 

[g5000]

Rather than "apologize" why wouldn't an American President forthrightly note how stupid it is to kill people over the destruction of a work of dopey fiction?

The soldiers were killed AFTER the apology.

Let's wait and see what the President's response is to the killings. Don't try to rewrite history and make it sound like the President apologized after the killings.

 

[konradv]

Rather than "apologize" why wouldn't an American President forthrightly note how stupid it is to kill people over the destruction of a work of dopey fiction?

Because then he'd be as stupid as you.

 

[g5000]

I will once again remind all of you, and Gingrich, you are setting a benchmark here to which you must hold ALL accountable, Republican as well as Democratic Presidents, from this day forward.