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In letter to Karzai, Obama apologizes for Koran burning

More violence feared as protests rage for 3d day

President Obama apologized yesterday for the burning of Korans at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan earlier this week as furious protests raged for a third day and a man wearing Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on coalition soldiers, killing two of them.

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The first paragraph of this story reports that a man wearing an Afghan army uniform killed two coalition soldiers. As it turns out, the two killed were Americans. So far there have been about 50 similar murders of U.S. and NATO troops, nearly all of them reported in the same manner. A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform. This is craven journalism at its worst. Suggesting that there is a band of assassins roaming around disquised as Afghan soldiers because the real members of the Afghan army would never do a thing like this. The second paragraph starts out "I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident." One would hope that this statement was coming from Afghan President Karzai over the murders of the two U.S. troops. But no, it was coming from President Obama expressing anguish over the accidental burning of Korans in a trash incinerator. About a month ago there was a big scandal about some young Marines urinating on the bodies of Taliban insurgents. We as a society are figuratively urinating on our own troops by placing them in this impossible situation and then basically forgetting about them. There should be massive street demonstrations and a constant media drumbeat demanding to extricate all of our troops from that primative hellhole. The presidential candidates have completely ignored the issue. As far as I know it has never come in the debates, they are too busy jabbering about contraceptives. Shame, shame on us.