In World War II ( probably before ), aviators and artillerymen wrote graffiti on ordnance and names on their cannons and vehicles. Sometimes these names served a legimate purpose in denoting which aircraft or armored vehicle was which, or within what platoon individual units resided. This naming or graffiti included simple names of women ( wives or girl friends ) and complicated joke phrases ( one WWII B-17 was named Murder Inc. ). The British even went so far as denoting what particular tanks were in a platoon, by using female names with the same first letter ( Mary, Marge, Martha, etc. ). To reduce anxiety and raise morale, ordnance people often scrawled phrases on the bombs and shells. Sometimes this graffiti could get quite graphic and vulgar. After all, they are soon to be destroyed? In the heat of battle, why not allow the soldiers any diversion they deem helpful or funny? Forcing them to adhere to some silly politically correct formula for what they can write on ordnance, or making it a court marshall offense to do so, would reduce morale. Let's get realistic, man!

The liberals condone or support such things as: adultery, lying under oath in court, partial birth abortion, defaming Independant Counsel Kenneth Starr, active AIDS infected people serving your food, closing down farms because a kangaroo rat was found in a field, homosexual Boy Scoutmasters, and pornographic magazines digging into the past sex lives of Republican legislators. Their newest outrage is graffiti on military ordnance? Hey man, the stuff gets blown up, okay!

This is what is being reported. Amazingly? Sadly? Perplexingly?

I didn't see this photograph myself, but supposedly the Associated Press posted a picture of a 2,000 pound laser guided bomb being loaded onto a carrier aircraft with this evil politically incorrect graffiti message written on it, " Here's a Ramadan present from Chad Rickenberg ". Okay, where is the profanity here? I suppose they wouldn't have cared if it had a vulgar statement about Saddam Hussein on it. They were lucky it didn't have a Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton slogan on it instead! Well, evidentally, the Department of Defense is reportedly " expressing dismay about this thoughtless graffiti referring to the Islamic holy " holiday. Now wait just a dog gone minute here. I think it seems like a rather nice sentiment, actually. If they don't want to show this stuff on television, then blame the media for posting it!

This has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in all my life. These soldiers and sailors are out there risking their lives. If chalking some slogan or joke on a bomb cuts through the tension of combat, they deserve to be able to do it! If the Pentagon or the media thinks somehow it is in bad taste to write on bombs that are soon to be delivered to our enemies, then don't allow them to be photographed and those photos released to the viewing public. The men and women serving in our armed forces don't need to have some politically correct censor standing around, to okay what they may or may not scribble on things that go BOOM! These folks may be facing imminent death, so they need to blow off steam through humor. This humor should be whatever they want!

Just to show you how really politically correct our military establishment has become under our current left wing liberal inhabitant of the Whitehouse, the report went on.

Kenneth Bacon ( Clinton appointed Pentagon spokesman? ) had these remarks. " 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 ". He continued with. " Religious intolerance is an anathema to Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and to all Americans who cherish the right to worship freely. " He finished with a real cave in to political correctness. " The United States deeply respects Islam. We are grateful for our good relations with Arab and Islamic peoples, and we appreciate the important contributions of Muslim-Americans to the U.S. military and to our nation as a whole. I know our people in uniform respect and appreciate religious practices different from their own. This incident is a rare exception that does not reflect American policy or values ".

Whoa, hold on here! Were we not dropping these bombs and missiles on Iraq during Ramadan? The answer is yes! Was this WAR or an ENCOUNTER GROUP? The day we start to get touchy feely with our enemies, is the day our military becomes a group of Pizza delivery truck drivers. I think we may all be seeing the effects of women and gays in the miltary, starting to run it's poltically correct course toward a defanging of our armed forces ( but that is another story )!

I can give you a few examples of politically incorrect graffiti that they didn't show on television. " Suck on this Monica ", or " From UNSCOM with LOVE ", or " Saddam, hide this where the Sun don't shine! ".

- Bongo ( If you are a prude, don't read the previous paragraph...oops, too late! )