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It's not personal, it's just business
Привeтствую
Mожeт быть, тeрмин "smiley face laser rangefinder" имeeт в виду это? ;)
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http://www.snipercountry.com/roster/AllArchives/duty0199_07_12.htm
The following was taken from the Opinion page of the Savannah Morning
News, 23 December 1998.
"In a move straight out of a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the Department
of Defense on Monday announced it was upset with politically incorrect
graffiti scribbled on one of the bombs dropped on Iraq last week.
Pentagon officials saw an Associated Press photo taken during the
four-day bombing campaign that showed a 2000-pound laser-guided bomb on the
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the Persian Gulf with an inscription
that said, "Here's a Ramadan present from Chad Rickenberg."
The Clinton administration was not amused at this breach of bombing
etiquette. "Department of Defense officials were distressed to learn of
thoughtless graffiti mentioning the holy month of Ramadan written on a
piece of U.S. ordnance during Operation Desert Fox" in Iraq, chief Pentagon
spokesman Kenneth Bacon said in a statement Monday. "Religious intolerance
is an anathema to Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and to all
Americans who cherish the right to worship freely," he added. "The United
States deeply respects Islam."
Imagine the nerve of some sailor insulting Moslems right before
they're bombed, maimed and killed. It is irrelevant whether the victims
could read the graffiti as the bombs plummeted toward their homes.
Clearly what counts is the expression of the offending thought, not the
fact that people are being blown to smithereens.
Although the Geneva Convention is silent on this matter, we salute the
Pentagon for insisting on politically correct bombings. We suggest in
the future that all U.S. armed forces paint yellow smiley faces on all
ordnance and adopt as its official wartime slogan: It's not personal, it's
just business."