God knows I've heard and told my share of war stories. If ever the saying:"Loose lips sink ships" was true it was recently demonstrated. Violent demonstrations are taking place in Afghanistan because of a story to the effect that US Troops are desecrating the Koran.
Let me present a scenario of what can and probably did happen.
A couple of GI's are sitting around, smoking and BSing and telling stories of how to FU the ragheads. You've seen stories right here. Suddenly someone says it would be neat to remove all of the T-paper from the latrines and replace it with copies of the Koran. It goes on and on and someone says Yeah we should do that. That is all there is, or should have been to it. However, later GI Joe returns to the States and starts telling his buddies "combat stories". One is about how they replaced T-paper in the shitters with copies of the Koran. If Haji wanted to wipe he had to use a page of the Koran. All of the Buds are wide eyed and a couple repeat the story. Suddenly the story has escalatted to a "Wouldn't it be neaT. . . "story to a "fact" picked up by an irresponsible reporter and broadcast around the world. What started out as an innocent BS session trashed three years of hard work in the Middle East.
