12. NATO strategists were loathe to open maps of the area because refolding them can be difficult and annoying.

11. Thought we saw a guy down there giving us the finger.

10. Bombardier still pissed off about his Yugo.

9. Chinese embassy "just too shiny to ignore."

8. Good ol' boy southern accents do NOT translate well with the Brits.

7. "Sorry, we thought it was the *French* Embassy!"

6. Canadian navigator busy extolling virtues of Celine Dion.

5. Pilot playing Kosovo bingo needed B5, not G2.

4. Forgot to adjust for weight of Slim Pickens.

3. Male pilots refused to stop and ask for directions.

2. General Magoo has no comment.

and the Number 1 NATO Excuse for Bombing the Wrong Place...

1.NATO headquarters dinner order for "take out Chinese" was grossly misunderstood.

Others:

President Buchanan told us it was an abortion clinic.

The Serbs' latest tactic: cunningly rearranging Kosovo's buildings every five to ten years.

Those AAA maps of the Balkans are a little sketchy.

Those particular maps were drawn on "casual Fridays."

Use of map with "Here be dragons!" on the edge should have been a tip-off.

Well, a certain country *stole* the technology that would have improved our bombing accuracy.

"In fact, the first bomb was *not* a mistake, but an hour later we were hungry for another target."

"Mapmaker: GS-03/A, $23,000-$29,000." 'Nuff said.

"Poorly-marked rooftops."

Bee in the cockpit.

Computers targeted "Super Mario Brothers" lookalikes among Serb population.

French military advisors thought poor street layout could be enhanced by the addition of some smoking craters.

Generals too overwrought by the cancellation of Home Improvement to do their jobs properly.

HQ's General Tso's chicken order was taking way too long.

It's just a tragic consequence of war that our pilots sometimes succumb to the wholesome goodness of a Hostess Twinkie in the middle of a sortie.

NATO Command leaders had inadvertently placed their heads up their butts.

Pilot thought it was headquarters of Serbia Online.

Planes have to fly too damn high ever since the Italians got so friggin' sensitive about that little ski-lift mishap.

There was a Raisinette covering the last letter in "Iran" and they thought, "better safe than sorry."

We used maps from the first edition of "Risk."

What difference does it make? They're all foreigners and we're going to bomb the hell out of everyone eventually anyway."