My immediate reaction is @#$% Iraqi #$%^, etc. In the comments I found this
Okay, Gerber had a hard time selling baby food in Africa, because in Africa they put a picture of what is inside the can on the outside of the can. So Gerber putting a picture of a happy baby on the outside didn't really help their sales in Africa. Or so the story goes anyway.
So maybe this is a cultural thing, like everything else about the Mid-East. Black is white, good is bad, stupid is smart.
I don't buy it.
It IS one of the things we struggle with - the lack of Arabic language skills in the Army. We have our terps translate graffiti and all sorts of stuff for us, but there IS a decent chance they're not telling us the truth. :) Lends a little uncertainty to EVERYTHING
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