Posted on 08/24/2011 2:16:33 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
There are so many weird aspects of this story. Don't these Marines have mothers, or someone in their lives who told them as children that audible passing of gas was offensive? And the high command has to tell them to cut it out because it offends Afghans, as if such a reaction were different from that of any normal person? And unfortunately, the friendly-fire jihad attacks by Afghans that regularly punctuate the working relationship between U.S. and Afghan troops are not going to be ended by this small gesture in "trust building." "For Marines in Afghanistan: be careful where you fart," by Gina Cavallaro in Military Times, August 23 (thanks to David):
Well, we do want to avoid a recurrence of something like the "Farts War" with Canada, don't we?
I’m lactose intolerant. Give me a quart of yogurt and I’ll help the boys put an end to this mess.
Farts are a “report announcing the arrival of General Shit “
Looks like the top brass love Muzzies like most of the Feds. What do expect from the Marines since there is a mosque at the Marine base at Quantico?
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON RIGHT ON RIGHT ON!!!!!!!
Bring them home both from there and New Islam {Iraq}. Let a few M.E. nations get PO'd at each other and let them all go back to what they love the most which is killing each other.
After getting the troops home start a serious rebuilding of our own forces and begin training a 1990 End Troop Strength Active Duty Military. Call up volunteer retirees to help get it going again. If someone invades a M.E. nation fine. If they fight each other for decades that's fine too.
No more wars without very clear and very specific military goals and plans too expedite them as swiftly and deadly as possible. No more wars without a real declaration that binds congress to support and provide for it. Most of all. No more nation building with our tax money. Any military brass or civilian Pentagon offical writing such a rule as this article states should be fired.
It doesn’t appear to say that the jarheads can’t still tear off their heads and s*** down their throats.
As long as they don’t pass gas in the process.
This here is a real beans and bullets story.
Thanks for the pings, Slings!
Marines not to fart loudly, so as not to offend locals; locals required to bow (or get their head sawed off, if they don’t) to Satan fives a day and fart silently at God, offending all decent folks. Got it!
THEY WIPE THEIR ASSES WITH THEIR HANDS!
Gee, when you say it that way it sounds like a bad thing.
The ass**** of the world, and they are offended by farts?
I imaging in large areas of the old muslim world there is no toilet paper, corn cobs, Sears catalogs, leaves, or water. One deals with toilet functions with the left hand. One dips food out of the communical pot with the right hand. It was a sensible public health rule. Thus the penalty of cutting off the right hand for theft was basically a death sentence by starvation in the early tribal society.
You Marines, never, EVER... fart in my presence!
WTF? Then how else... can we communicate with the Big O?
You know, big, both Carl Jung and I agree, sometimes a fart... is just a fart.
Oh, great wizard, I think... you made a mistake with the Cowardly Lion.
Yeah, I wanted a heart and you gave me... a fart!
Way to go, Obama! Make farting... a hanging offense!
If they fart... kill 'em!
Almost embarrassed President Obama in that meeting... but instead I just crapped in my pants.
The monolith-- It's full... of farts!
Here at Police Squad, we never, ever fart... when the President drops by.
This just in at CNN... Ken Brockmann reporting!
President Obama's ban on Marines farting at Muslims... has received many reactions--
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Farting Ban... is a step in the right direction!
AlGore says, "Great!... another greenhouse gas done away with!"
Ted Kennedy climbed out of his grave... to demand the farting ban be expanded to cover the entire Tea Party.
Joining Kennedy's talking corpse was Osama bin Landen's... saying he will sue the Seals that killed him as they farted at him, too.
Former President Carter mused, "I tried to ban farting... but those evil Republicans and Jews wouldn't let me!
Mitt Ronmey disputes that Obama's Farting Ban... is based on the Farting Ban he instituted when governor of Massachusetts.
Steve McCroskey says he picked the wrong day... to give up farting.
And in closing, Joe Biden says, "China's One Child Policy is fine with me... "but two farts are always better than one!"
And this is Ken Brockmann saying, that's the way it is... totally fartless and keep it that way!
Oh well, guess I better get rid... of all the pinto beans I had for dinner--
Another keeper!!
Seen this?
Pffft . . .
LOL! Candles! HA
I fart in Moe-ham-head’s general direction.
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