Fox Attacks On Obama Ignore Bush Apology For Quran Desecration

[DearAbby]

Fox News figures are lambasting President Obama as "weak" for apologizing to Afghans after U.S. military personnel burned copies of the Quran. This criticism is bizarre, as Obama's reaction to the incident is fully consistent with U.S. precedent: in 2008, President Bush similarly apologized to Iraq's prime minister following the desecration of a Quran by American military personnel.

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Huffington Post: President Bush "Apologized To Iraq's Prime Minister For An American Sniper's Shooting Of A Quran." A May 21, 2008 Huffington Post article reported:

President Bush has apologized to Iraq's prime minister for an American sniper's shooting of a Quran, and the Iraqi government called on U.S. military commanders to educate their soldiers to respect local religious beliefs.

Bush's spokeswoman said Tuesday that the president apologized during a videoconference Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who told the president that the shooting of Islam's holy book had disappointed and angered both the Iraqi people and their leaders.

"He apologized for that in the sense that he said that we take it very seriously," White House press secretary Dana Perino said. "We are concerned about the reaction. We wanted them to know that the president knew that this was wrong." [Huffington Post, 5/21/08]

http://mediamatters.org/research/201202270007

Hypocrites!

[PSPS]

1. Bush did a lot of apologizing, like to the Chinese after they shot down our spy plane.

[spanone]

2. faux ignores facts in general

[Thinkingabout]

3. They would rather climb a tree

And tell a a lie rather than staying on the ground and tell the truth.

[hollysmom]

4. didn't Bush also apologize to the Chinese to get the plane back?

I will google and get back with the information.

Yes, yes he did, after saying he would never go so low,
here is a link for it.
http://www.sinomania.com/CHINANEWS/usa_china_apology.htm

[DearAbby]

5. H. Clinton: GOP rhetoric over Obama Afghan apology could ‘inflame’ situation

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended President Obama’s apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and warned that the GOP’s condemnation of the apology could further “inflame” the situation.

Last week, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan accidentally burned some Qurans, which sparked deadly protests in the country. Obama apologized to Karzai for the “unintentionally mishandled” books – a move that has been criticized by some Republicans.

“I find it somewhat troubling that our politics would inflame such a dangerous situation in Afghanistan,” Clinton told CNN on Monday.

On Saturday, Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak apologized to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for an incident that left two U.S. military officers dead in the Interior Ministry of the Afghan capital of Kabul.

The shooting spurred a recall of coalition forces from the Afghan ministries. On Monday, Clinton would only elaborate to say that the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan was in lockdown and that employees there were not allowed to leave.

More: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/212875-sec-clinton-gop-rhetoric-over-obama-afghan-apology-could-inflame-the-situation