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Ichingcarpenter

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Thu Mar 1, 2012, 07:15 AM Mar 2012

President Bush apologizes for troops desecrating Koran

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]

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President Bush apologizes for troops desecrating Koran (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Mar 2012 OP
Bush is a kenyan Muslim too? Cooley Hurd Mar 2012 #1
Do you have a link I can use? safeinOhio Mar 2012 #2
huffington Post CBS news AP Ichingcarpenter Mar 2012 #3
thanks safeinOhio Mar 2012 #4
But but but he's a ReTHUG malaise Mar 2012 #5
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