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I’m so sick of people thinking they know everything. I posted about the Koran being burned by the U.S Military on Facebook and said that I thought they were idiots for doing that. THEN some Marine house wife gets her panties in a bunch about how the the Koran is “just a book.” I’m like HOLD THE…

Ok here’s the thing. We didn’t take them out of public libraries in Afghanistan, these books were in a library on Bagram Air Base that was there for Afghan POW’s. We put those books there for the people we were detaining. The reason they were burned was because there were extremist writings in them. They were not jsut Korans. they were Korans that the detainees had defaced with extremist propaganda. That’s why they were burned. All in all they were disposed of in a bad way and should have been done better, but regardless, the point here isn’t religion, the point is that why are these people trying to hang our soldiers out to dry for burning the Koran but our own citizens can burn the American flag. Yes you sacrifice some rights when you join the military, but this just seems a little wrong to me that we are hanging these guys out to be terrible people