"Catchy code-name for upcoming gulf war" Topic

As the troop buildup in the Gulf continues, it seems that war is almost inevitable. So far no code-name for the operation has been made public. Once actually used as top-secret codes for upcoming military actions, these operation names are now an important part of the mass-marketing for public approval of military strikes.

I guess the guys at the Pentagon who are responsible for naming operations haven't been able to come up with anything catchy since all the good ones (Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Just Cause, Ensure Freedom, ...) have already been taken.

Let's lend these folks a hand and give some suggestions for naming the operation we will be wargaming in the future.

Daddy's War...

the stupid war that led to WWIII

Operation Lakes of Glass

Eagle Strike

or

American Storm

Operation 9/11

Operation End Game or Operation Eviction, or Game's Over

Operation Hey, your shoes untied!
Operation: Weapon of Mass Distraction
Operation Oil Grab
Dubya W 3

OK you get the idea

s/b with line breaks:

Operation Hey, your shoes untied!

Operation: Weapon of Mass Distraction

Operation Oil Grab

Dubya W 3

OK you get the idea

Operation "Back to Iraq!"

And a not so funny one: Operation Global Economic Depression.

Operation Mine-Oil-Mine

Operation Rumsfeld's Viagra

Operation Mesopotamian Mash
Operation Fertile Crescent Crunch

Operation Bully Or Operation Make More Terrorists

How about "Operation Clinton Couldn't"? Or Oeration About F***** Time?

Really getting tired of wise-butt liberal, draft-dodging, Jane Fonda Wanna Be's wringing their hands about Bush's war.

Ooooh, the rest of the world doesn't like us, so we better not take care of our strategic intersts, they m,ight not like us more!

I can recall a philospher (Santanyana-sp?) who said, Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it---or something to that effect.

If Iraq won't abide by the UN & US terms, then it's time for us to walk the walk. War is not good, only sometimes necessary.

OR Operation Jr.

Operation "This is what God wants according to Bush"

Operation It'll only taje a minute

Operation It'll only take a minute

Oh my! Is sarcasm the order of the day or what? If everyone is so pissed at the idea of going to war, why does the poll I saw give a 50% plus figure to the number who think going to war is a good idea?

My suggestions for a code name:

Operation Desert Buster; O Oilslick; O Crusader (oh the Muslims would just love THAT one :); O God's Army; O Pro bono publico; O New Jersey; O Exterminator; O Mordor; O Get Saddam; O Liberator; O Ad nauseam; O Turnbuckle; O Go for glory; O Second round; O Eye for an eye; O Up mars; O Deliverance; O GWB jr; O Desert rat.

:)

pzivh43: With the risk of getting my post deleted for digressing I would like to take the opportunity to say that I am getting dreadfully tired of the popular american view that the rest of the world (usually referring to Europe) somehow doesn't "like" the US. Being of a different opinion doesn't mean "not liking". This rethoric makes it seem like we of a different opinon think like we do only because we somehow want to harm the US. Our arguments are ignored and we europeans are labeled as anti-american while americans of the same opinion are labeled as "wise-butt liberal, draft-dodging, Jane Fonda Wanna Be's" ("unpatriotic" being the more orthodox term i believe).

Bravo fredrik. Being simple-minded and living in a black and white world is a lot easier isn't it pzivh34?

Kevin

How about "Operation Whack Iraq?"

Brought to you in part by Teamsters Local 240.

Joe

You know people over 50 years ago there was a little conflict in Europe that america tried very hard to stay out of. Now had that happened there would be alot of you people goose steppen off to work every day. How ungreatful.

P.S.
Opperation turn about is fair play!!!!!!!!

Munich Agreement Two-The Final Draft

Weapons Inspection-Week Six Hundred and Twenty

Phoenix Denied-The League of Nations Held in Check

Clamor Germannicus-The Stunning Claims to Lead a Neutered Nation By

Gallic Economy-The Shifting Sands that lack a Moral Foundation

Where Euros Dare-Where Profits Precede Morality

Operation Compliance-Where We Stand by our Words

Hulagu-The Sequel

Baksheesh No More-Who will pay this turn

The War Before They Took Out France

Who says once Iraq is brought "under the crosshairs" that the terrorism will stop...? Sure, SH may be harbouring/funding some of the terrorist orgs, but turning Iraq into glass will only enflame the situation (no pun intended).

I wouldn't be surprised to find that all the current rhetoric and hype is very similar to what got the Crusaders pumped up to tramp all the way down to Jerusalem way back when!

...so for my suggestions:

Operation Holy Crusade?

or

Operation Revenge-is-best-served-at-the-end-of-a-gun-barrel?

or

Operation Intollerance = Escalation?

ps: I'm pleased to see the Membership of this site generally has a good enough sense of humour to "take a joke" in the face of adversity - bravo.

The One Day War ?
Nuke The Raghead ?
Sandy Hitler ?

Operation Desert Storm II, coming soon to a deserving tyrants home near you!

Operation:

International Impotence.

Monicas War.

Free Iraq

Operation: Irrelevant UN

How about "Are we at war yet?" Operation "No blood on my hands,' inspired by the overwrought enthusiasm all those nice conservatives like Goofy George II, Dick Cheney, Rush Limabaugh, etc, etc, etc have for this war which is really charming when you consider how they evaded service in Vietnam. I also favor Operation "Crrrapp" from the initials of the dreary national security team of Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Ridge, Ashcroft, Powell and Perle who are practically in a state of orgasm in anticipation of this one. How about "Iraq, then France and Germany," for those clods who think badly of those countries because they are thinking for themselves?

Jim - who served in Vietnam and thinks this one makes even less sense than Vietnam. Just because I went through it doesn't mean I want others to do so.

"When people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think." Thucydides.

How about "EXXON"erate President Bush by XMas 2003?

Joe

"Gulf War II, Electric Bugaloo"

"Ooops, we did it again"

Operation Chamberlain Waving a Piece of Paper and Telling the World There'll Be Peace in Our Time Part Two....

Operation Year One of Twenty

Operation Changing Justification

Operation Clever Marketing

Operation Granada II

Nice one Crusoe. I wish it was "Operation capture Saddam and his cronies, help Iraq get on its feet and get the hell out."

march of folly

Operation Except for Invading Kuwait AND Iran, and Gassing the Kurds in the North of Iraq and Shooting the Shi'ite Muslims in the South of Iraq as well as Launching Scud Missilies into Saudi Arabia and Israel, He's Not Such a Bad Guy and We May Have Misunderstood Him and He Probably Means Well.

Operation B.U.S.H.

B eat
U p
S addam
H ussen

Operation Deja Vu

Operation-Anyone who thinks this war is a good idea can go fight it

Operation "Now we're SURE there's no weapons of mass destruction - it's a nuclear wasteland!"

Operation Reasonable Doubt.

Operation 'O'

Operation After Iraq we pull our troops and money out of Europe and let them act like the 4th rate powers they really are......

Operation Just Because

Operation 'Sacrifice the Moral High Ground in the War Against Terrorism just to gain Personal Vengence'.

We could shorten it to 'Sacrifice Morality'.

Observation: President Bush is determined to remove Saddam Hussein from power and create a democratic Iraq, by any means necessary.

Follow up observation: There are only two possible ways to do the above:

1. By the use of violent force, relying on a (politically) incomplete (yet still significant) international coalition if necessary.

2. By *united* world opinion *promising* the use of violent force, frightening Saddam into surrender.

The end result of #1 is a dead Saddam, after or during a war of indeterminate length, with attendant casualties of an indeterminate amount.

The end result of #2 is an exiled and powerless Saddam (plus his various underlings), with an internationally brokered interim government recognizing human rights, etc., all *without* war and the attendant casualties.

BUT...

Unless the world *unites* behind the concept of #2-- which gives the world the preferred outcome-- then #1 is inevitable. Unfortunately, the world seems unwilling to make this commitment and to stand with resolve. Therefore, Saddam assumes he has a chance to survive, based on half-measures of semi-compliance, out-right deception, and veiled threats of terrorist actions (using weapons he says he doesn't have...). Turn enough people and nations against #2, and he thinks he may either survive, stall or even prevent #1 all together. If he can delay the world long enough to make us afraid of the idea, or bored with the idea, then maybe he can survive. But if he *knows* his number is up, if he *knows* he'll be dead by August, then maybe, just maybe, he'll surrender and accept exile in a villa in Venezuala.

But the *only* way this will happen is if he perceives he's got no one left to hide behind. Not France, not Germany, not China, not Russia, not a pack of Hollywood "useful idiot" activists... nobody.

So here's the irony of the whole thing: All the people opposing the war are making the war more inevitable. Whereas if they stood together and said, "Yes, the government of Iraq is evil, is in violation of international law and must be removed, by force if necessary..." then a war might very well never happen.

So, in keeping with this irony, I propose the following code name:

Operation Firm Resolve.

(And I'll lay bets that will indeed be the name...)

Oh my! Is sarcasm the order of the day or what? If everyone is so pissed at the idea of going to war, why does the poll I saw give a 50% plus figure to the number who think going to war is a good idea?
pzivh43

Because most of them have never smelt wet blood or felt how slippy wet blood is on there hands or seen dead children......if they did or had then they wouldnt be so smart about starting a war with Iraq.

Just watch that 50% dwindle when the body bags come home the same 50% that make up the B Sqaud B here when you go off to fight and B here when you come back.

Pavlov