DOD cancelled the Crusader in 2002.
Posted on 01/21/2010 9:04:32 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. General David Petraeus said on Thursday it was "disturbing" that a manufacturer had embossed biblical citations on rifle scopes sent to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the firm announced it would voluntarily halt the practice.
"This is a big concern to the Army and the Marine Corps, who have contracted for these particular sites," said Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, noting the religious sensitivities American forces face in the two Muslim countries.
"This is of serious concern to me and to the other commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan because, indeed, it conveys a perception that is absolutely contrary to what it is that we have sought to do," Petraeus told a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"It is disturbing to us, frankly, that this was done," he added.
President Barack Obama has sought to convince the Muslim world that the U.S. fight against al Qaeda militants should not be viewed as a war against Islam.
Former President George W. Bush heightened those concerns shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington when he referred to his war on terrorism as a "crusade," a remark critics warned raised images of Christian knights attacking Muslim cities during the Middle Ages.
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Amen to that!
Cheers
Nothing. It’s not a “Christian” thing...
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What a crock. The Crusades were a trivial counteroffensive against 13 centuries of Muslim attacks on Christian cities, including wholesale massacres of all the inhabitants and desecration of Christian churches, all of which continues up to the present day. Yet we allow this treacherous Muslim scum to enter our country, build their obscene mosques, preach their hatred, and recruit in our prisons. Why on earth are we fighting to protect Muslims from other Muslims in their Third World hellholes, when our so-called "friends" in Saudi Arabia were the ones who gave birth to al Qaeda, continue to finance it, and aggressively spread their Wahhabi cancer all over the world?
This is Political Correctness run amok.
Frankly, it's also must be offensive to God as well. There once was a time when when we wanted Him on our side and honored Him. If our Founding Fathers were still around, they would probably grab their muskets off the wall and head out to stop this madness. And they would probably take their Bibles with them as well.
Maybe we should take IN GOD WE TRUST off our coinage as well just to please CAIR and the God-hating pantywaists that infest this country,... and I hate to say it,... our "Defense" Department, too?
F*ck them! God save us from these fools.
Why is it nobody inside the beltway can call this for what it is: trivial BS that's being spun into a major crisis as a test to see how much clout the liberals and their media still have? Why hasn't one person gone on the record saying that this is a phony crisis, and the sights are on the weapons because we want to kill these people, so we don't really care if they're offended or not?
Trijicon was successful when this was a minor "insider" item that "offended" nobody. I'm sorry if they feel that continued business success depends on assuaging the feelings of some RAT liberals who feel their calling in life is to assuage the feelings of moslem terrorist cowards. It would cost tens of millions of dollars to retool their entire product line, but if Trijicon feels this is the best course for their company, so bet it.
Personally, I'd offer the government the choice of buying the existing products at existing prices, or develop a Politically Correct version at double the price. For that price, they could also include materials in arabic explaining while we're eager to kill them, we'd never intentionally or unintentionally offend them.
The saddest part is seeing retired flag officers swallow hard and tow the party line. Perhaps they remember the Clinton years, when pro-Clinton retirees got speaking and consulting gigs, while anybody who spoke up against them could find their pension checks routed into a black hole for months at a time.
I’ll echo that, Mister Mag.
And how.
DOD cancelled the Crusader in 2002.
No, General dipshit. Disturbing is the PC claptrap your Pentagon put out as a “report” about the Fort Hood jihadist scumbag POS.
What’s disturbing is that somebody at Petraeus’ level really needs to respond at all. I understand, sadly, why he feels compelled to answer it that way.
We’re finished.
That settles it. I’m buying a Trijicon ACOG this week. I want one with the inscription intact.
"Disturbing"? Hardly, but then I am a Christian. If someone were to have references to the Koran, I doubt I'd be able to read them anyway, but I could do the same.
To me, the bottom line is that the company has been doing this for years (decades), and that until someone ginned up a complaint, it wasn't a problem.
If our allies don't like it, let them buy their own scopes.
And reveal the true beauty of intellectual inbreeding...
Such astounding idiocy in an otherwise intelligent seeming individual is “disturbing”.
The mohammedans want to butcher you General, enslave your young female relatives and murder the males. A few letters and numbers embossed on a weapons sight isn’t going to make them a graver threat.
Idiot.
I agree. GEN Petraeus says cryptic inscriptions on combat optics “are disturbing” and his colleague GEN Casey said he hopes diversity is not a casualty of the Ft Hood terrorist attack. The same PC Army leadership allowed the contemptible MAJ Nidal, a clearly insane jihadists who made no attempt to hide his sympathies, advance to field grade rank and shoot up his fellow soldiers. The Army not only accommodated Nidal’s anti-American lunacy, they encouraged it by promoting him. Now the Army leaders are upset and talking more about this issue than they did about the obvious madman they had as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed and Ft Hood. I predict that they will make sure this issue is quickly resolved while they do absolutely nothing about other potential jihadists in the ranks now. The Army Officer Corps embrace of PC silliness is getting very tiresome.
I'm taking mine in to the place that engraves our Hobbit Hole knives, and have them laser-engrave the full quote onto the side, where it will be easy to see.
Oh man.....(you don’t know me)
You can expect the Generals to fret about this stuff. They became generals because they learned how to play the PC game. Dittos for the libtards.
The people that actually use the scopes don't care whether the references are on the scope at all. All they care about is whether it helps them put rounds on targets.
Roger that. I wonder if they could somewhere on there fit some of Psalm 23: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil...”
This thing really pisses me off.
We should name our army weapons systems after Muslim names..we already have the M. Should not be to difficult. The M1 can be Muslim1. ya think that would make the left and muslims happy?
No more Army Christian Chaplains to Iraq, Afgan, Philippines.
Cancel all Christian services for the soldiers.
If your faith is Christian..cancel all deployments to Combat zones.
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