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February 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “I find it somewhat troubling that our politics would enflame such a dangerous situation in Afghanistan,” said Clinton regarding the criticism of the apology in an interview with CNN news network on Sunday.
“It was the right thing to do to have our president on record as saying this was not intentional, we deeply regret it,” Clinton said.
More than 30 people, including four American troops, have been killed in anti-US demonstrations across Afghanistan over the desecration of the Holy Qur’an and other Islamic reading material at the US military’s Bagram Airbase, located 11 kilometers (7 miles) southeast of the city of Charikar in the northern province of Parwan.
“We are hoping that voices inside Afghanistan will join that of President Karzai and others in speaking out to try to calm the situation. It is out of hand and it needs to stop,” Clinton said.
On Sunday, US Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum demanded the Afghans to apologize for what he calls their ‘overreaction’ in response to burning copies of the Holy Qur’an by American forces.
“I think the response needs to be apologized for, by Karzai and the Afghan people, for attacking and killing our men and women in uniform, and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake,” said Santorum in NBC’s nationally broadcast Meet the Press talk show.
“That is the real crime, not what our soldiers did,” he added.
The Republican presidential hopeful also rapped Obama for apologizing to the Afghan people over the incident.
Obama’s apology “made it sound like there was something that you should apologize for, and there was no act that needed an apology,” Santorum insisted.
Obama sent a letter of apology to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Thursday morning, saying that the incident was not intentional.
The comments by Santorum come as Newt Gingrich, another US Republican presidential hopeful, has similarly deplored Obama’s apology for the desecration of the Holy Qur’an by American forces, describing it as “astonishing” and undeserved.
“Obama is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States period,” Gingrich said last Thursday.
The persisting desecration of the Holy Qur’an by American servicemen underscores the insensitivity of the US-led forces to the cultural and religious values and rituals of Afghanistan, more than 10 years after they invaded the Asian nation to remove the Taliban from power.
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