Guest The Hamburglar Report post Posted March 22, 2003 The Bush administration's names for all their military ventures fucking suck the biggest of balls. Iraqi Freedom is as ghey as ghey can be. Go the whole hog and call it something cool or threatening. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SP-1 Report post Posted March 22, 2003 I'd personally like, "Operation Saddam is Fucked" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted March 22, 2003 I still call it Gulf War II: Electric Boogaloo just to be a smartass. Well it looks like a terrorist attack hit the 101st camp in Kuwait/southern Iraq. At least 6 hurt, no fatalities reported yet. And B-52 are back on the way to Iraq. Get ready for S & A 2: Attack of the Big Ass Planes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Olympic Slam Report post Posted March 22, 2003 Man, I haven't posted here in awhile........... I liked the original name given to the war on terror in the days following 9/11 which was "Operation: Infinite Justice." That sounded so bad-ass Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jobber of the Week Report post Posted March 22, 2003 The Bush administration's names for all their military ventures fucking suck the biggest of balls. Iraqi Freedom is as ghey as ghey can be. Go the whole hog and call it something cool or threatening. A friend of mine in the military was part of a mission called "Operation: Provide Comfort." He still bemoans that it's the sissiest name for a military action he's ever seen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hogan Made Wrestling Report post Posted March 22, 2003 WWE should provide names for the operations. I mean, what sounds more interesting Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation ARMAGEDDON Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SP-1 Report post Posted March 23, 2003 LOL. WWE would so play up the supposed angle of Bush Jr. trying to finish the personal war his dad started. OPERATION IRAQ: BAD BLOOD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vyce Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Man, I haven't posted here in awhile........... I liked the original name given to the war on terror in the days following 9/11 which was "Operation: Infinite Justice." That sounded so bad-ass I think the reason that they changed the name was because a bunch of Islamic groups got their panties in a wad, believing that the title meant some sort of war on the Muslim faith. Unfortunately the administration caved in, and changed the name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Zero_Cool Report post Posted March 23, 2003 I would liek to get the name Mesopotamia in there somewhere. maybe Mesopotamia Mayhem... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Man, I haven't posted here in awhile........... I liked the original name given to the war on terror in the days following 9/11 which was "Operation: Infinite Justice." That sounded so bad-ass I think the reason that they changed the name was because a bunch of Islamic groups got their panties in a wad, believing that the title meant some sort of war on the Muslim faith. Unfortunately the administration caved in, and changed the name. IIRC Islamic groups didn't like the operation name because in their faith Allah is the only one who can issue "Infinte Justice". Something like that anyway. But yeah it was a pretty good operation name. Of course if Vince was in charge of operation planning he could bring back the old Brawl for it All name for this one. Theme music, Tommy Franks gets his own pyro (courtesy of a Tomahawk salvo) and video, the whole deal. XFL meets modern warfare. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jobber of the Week Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Fuckin' Geraldo Rivera's show just came on Fox News. It's being orchistrated just like The Jerry Springer Show - Did anyone else just see that intro? Did anyone else hear the collective sound of millions of viewers turning off Fox News when Geraldo came on? This is absolutely the worst thing I've seen broadcast since the beginning of the war. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jobber of the Week Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Of course if Vince was in charge of operation planning he could bring back the old Brawl for it All name for this one. Theme music, Tommy Franks gets his own pyro (courtesy of a Tomahawk salvo) and video, the whole deal. XFL meets modern warfare. From my post on the first night: Major US television news outlets are fairly worthless right now. These guys are so off-kilter their anchors are second-guessing and half-assing the whole thing. Foxnews just had a headline at the bottom reading "300,000 coalition troops surround Iraq" "17 Iraqi soldiers surrender" while Shep Smith comments on how that info must be wrong, causing me to guffaw quite loudly. CNN's anchor is blabbing the same stupid guestimations and blatherings over and over again and constantly switching to the wrong correspondents or ones with nothing really to say. Ugh. We need Vince McMahon to start his own war-covering news agency with live helmet-cams and action replays with bullet time. He'll show these fockers how to cover a war. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jobber of the Week Report post Posted March 23, 2003 US military saying they are "mopping up Basra" and Basra is now in their hands (second largest city in Iraq). US officials are saying they are as confident as they can be that Saddam was on a stretcher being pulled out of the bunker. UK's Telegraph (also owned by Rupert Murdoch, and the source of some previous coalition propaganda) is printing a front-page story tomorrow that PM Tony and others were informed that Hussein was so seriously wounded that he needed a large blood transfusion. The last major stronghold in Afghanistan has fallen as well. All this off of Fox. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest phoenixrising Report post Posted March 23, 2003 I like the theme music idea. Maybe they can get one of the modified cargo planes that puts out radio transmissions (can't think of the name of it right now) and flood the radio airwaves with music. For example, play Welcome To The Jungle then let the bombs start exploding. Or the 7th Cavalry playing some death metal to announce their presence. Names...Operation Aerial Ass-Whooping for the Baghdad bombing. For the overall operation...Operation Final Hour as this is Saddam's final moments as dictator and the regime's final hours of existence. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jobber of the Week Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Oh god, now you got me thinking of Jim Ross flying around a battlezone with a bullhorn. "BAH GAWD that Abrams tank is a monster!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MD2020 Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Oh god, now you got me thinking of Jim Ross flying around a battlezone with a bullhorn. "BAH GAWD that Abrams tank is a monster!" Or "BAH GAWD that B-52 is a HOSS!!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jobber of the Week Report post Posted March 23, 2003 "Oh! Oh! He's gettin' away! He's gettin' away! That man is running like a scalded dog! And here comes the A-10 Warthog! Go get 'em! It's really tearing into him! Good GOD ALMIGHTY this is carnage!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DARRYLXWF Report post Posted March 23, 2003 For Australians its the 'Operation of Hard Knocks' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tim Report post Posted March 23, 2003 What happened to XWFDARRYL's retirement? And I prefer "Operation Sex". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Well Fox News (reporting on a Washington Post report) says that the Russians have sold jamming equipment to the Iraqis and had technicians in as late as LAST WEEK teaching them how to use it. This equipment could be used to jam radar and cause GPS and radar guided smart munitions to go wild. So the French sell hardware to Iraq as late as Jan. and now the Russians may have been in last week aiding their military. Well, that UN holdup is looking less and less like conscience and more and more like Covering Their Ass to me at least. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest NoCalMike Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Operation: "Destory & Rebuild" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest teke184 Report post Posted March 23, 2003 Well Fox News (reporting on a Washington Post report) says that the Russians have sold jamming equipment to the Iraqis and had technicians in as late as LAST WEEK teaching them how to use it. This equipment could be used to jam radar and cause GPS and radar guided smart munitions to go wild. So the French sell hardware to Iraq as late as Jan. and now the Russians may have been in last week aiding their military. Well, that UN holdup is looking less and less like conscience and more and more like Covering Their Ass to me at least. Can we subpoena Putin and Chriac for war crimes because they sold high-tech equipment to a despoitc state that gasses their own citizens? I'd LOVE to see that considering the shit the French pulled on Kissinger last year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted March 23, 2003 "BAH GAWD that Abrams tank is a monster!" Or "BAH GAWD that B-52 is a HOSS!!" The MOAB is a hoss amongst hosses. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted March 24, 2003 I wonder how many Iraqi soldiers have been killed so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Will Scarlet Report post Posted March 24, 2003 I cannot figure out what the big deal about showing the dead soldiers is. I mean, hey, that's war, deal with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted March 24, 2003 It specifically violates the Geneva Convention, which sets out all kinds of guidelines for the humane treatment of war prisoners. Part of that is not to make a public spectacle of them. If the people responsible aren't dead when the war is over, I fully expect the US to take them before The Hague as war criminals. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hogan Made Wrestling Report post Posted March 24, 2003 Has CNN been getting permission to show captured/surrendered Iraqis? After this whole thing became an issue I expected them to make some sort of statement about how none of their footage was obtained without permission and so on. As far as the Iraqis go, it's a clear violation of Geneva conventions. Listening to Donald Rumsfeld complaining about Geneva convention violations was kind of funny though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted March 24, 2003 There's a world of difference between news shots of some Iraqis surrendering, and a videotape made expressly to belittle and humiliate American POWs before executing them. News footage is different than hateful propaganda which results in soldiers being killed instead of treated humanely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted March 24, 2003 I believe the problem we have with the "interviews" is that they were put on a state run TV station, thereby insinuating that the government is putting them on display for public viewing, a violation of article 13 (I think) of the Geneva conventions. Shoot, the VP of Iraq even told everyone they were going to be put on TV before hand. And Uday (sp?) Hussein runs the station (and the state run radio station as well), assuming he wasn't in the bunker the night the Tomahawks first landed. The surrendering Iraqis are being shown by a private entity with no direct ties to their government. Vague differences depending on your view of American TV station companies, but differences nontheless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hogan Made Wrestling Report post Posted March 24, 2003 I believe the problem we have with the "interviews" is that they were put on a state run TV station, thereby insinuating that the government is putting them on display for public viewing, a violation of article 13 (I think) of the Geneva conventions. Shoot, the VP of Iraq even told everyone they were going to be put on TV before hand. And Uday (sp?) Hussein runs the station (and the state run radio station as well), assuming he wasn't in the bunker the night the Tomahawks first landed. The surrendering Iraqis are being shown by a private entity with no direct ties to their government. Vague differences depending on your view of American TV station companies, but differences nontheless. Yes that would make a difference then. The footage CNN was showing of the US soldiers had an Al-Jareeza logo on it so I assumed it was private footage, and then this uproar would apply to any footage of captured soldiers. But if it was on state-run TV that would be different. "There's a world of difference between news shots of some Iraqis surrendering, and a videotape made expressly to belittle and humiliate American POWs before executing them. News footage is different than hateful propaganda which results in soldiers being killed instead of treated humanely." Agreed, but I wonder if the Geneva conventions would make that sort of distinction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
