hexola
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:28 AM
Original message |
Iron Hammer - Is this operation poorly named? |
|
Edited on Fri Nov-14-03 08:29 AM by hexola
Iron Hammer? - I don't think hammers are made of iron...Hammers are made of steel...Iron is far too brittle and prone to fracture to use for a hammer...Poor choice of words?
Doesn't anyone actually think about these tough sounding opeation names?
|
Punkingal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:30 AM
Response to Original message |
1. I think it is completely absurd.... |
|
to give names to wars, anyway, I don't care what name they give them.
|
Bozola
(992 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:33 AM
Response to Reply #1 |
3. But think of the Book & Movie sales! |
|
It's wouldnt sell as well if it was called "Operation Texas Whoopsie"
|
Bozola
(992 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:31 AM
Response to Original message |
|
It's got that gritty Goebelesque feel to it straight from Nazi Germany.
Judging from what's happening over there, a shattered hammer may be an apt description...
|
Skittles
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:34 AM
Response to Reply #2 |
Ellen Forradalom
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:41 AM
Response to Reply #2 |
12. "Blut und Kohlefaserverstärkte thermoplastische Kunststoffe" |
|
just doesn't have the same ring to it. (That's Blood and Carbon Composite Materials.)
|
maddezmom
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:34 AM
Response to Original message |
4. reminds me of the USSR |
bicentennial_baby
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:39 AM
Response to Reply #4 |
Ellen Forradalom
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:36 AM
Response to Original message |
6. Sorta reminds me of The Wall |
pinkpops
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:36 AM
Response to Original message |
|
stiff hammer big hammer whammer hammer
|
in_cog_ni_to
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:38 AM
Response to Original message |
|
What do you expect from the bully cabal though? Iron Hammer fits them. It has a "bully-ish" sound.
|
libertad
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:39 AM
Response to Original message |
10. Some military guy on the news said it was named after the unit |
|
that carried out the mission. Their nickname is similar to Iron Hammer, but I can't remember exactly what he said.
|
oneighty
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:40 AM
Response to Original message |
|
I believe was an expression heard in the Boer Wars wherin the blacks (Browns) were "Hammered" by the sure hand of God (Read Whites). Thus Iron Hammer.
This is a crusade, after all.
180
|
pinkpops
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:58 AM
Response to Reply #11 |
16. I think you've nailed it |
leftchick
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:41 AM
Response to Original message |
13. It is as absurd a name as.... |
|
Operation Iraqi Freedom, which msrnc continues to keep on the screen... :puke:
|
JanMichael
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:44 AM
Response to Original message |
14. Too close to London's "Iron Heel" so yes it's poorly named. |
|
Unless of course they want to let everyone know we're Fascist Imperialists:shrug:
|
Maeve
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 08:44 AM
Response to Original message |
15. When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail |
|
And they don't have much in the toolbox...it also lacks any finesse, which sums up the misAdministration's actions far too often on the international stage.
|
Hogarth
(457 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 09:00 AM
Response to Original message |
|
It has the ring of a term that might have been invented by McFuckwit himself following his break-of-dawn Bible meditations.
|
Melsky
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 09:01 AM
Response to Original message |
18. Operation Teflon Hammer |
|
I think this would be appropriate for the way they duck out of things WMDs, no wait WMD programs, no wait Saddam was the WMD, well it was never about the WMDs, it's about the freedom of the Iraqis. Huh?
|
CWebster
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 09:01 AM
Response to Original message |
19. All the "operations" are titled |
|
in the most offensive stupid white male masturbatory fantasies of macho bravado.
|
ProfessorGAC
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 09:18 AM
Response to Original message |
20. Yes. It Evokes Two Negative Things |
|
First, Iron Curtain. I thought we hated the Soviet Union, now we're using a term that includes one of the symbols (the hammer) and Iron evokes the Chuchillian phrase.
Secondly, the idea of "Hammering" a populace into acquiescence is the opposite of what the publicly stated goals of the operation have been.
Whoever came up with this is as dumb as a box of rocks. The Professor
|
Waistdeep
(469 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 09:35 AM
Response to Original message |
21. Maybe they meant "Ironic Hammer" |
|
but you know how the Republicans have a tendency to drop the trailing "ic", like "Democrat" for "Democratic"
|
salinen
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Nov-14-03 09:53 AM
Response to Reply #21 |
|
o.k. all you clever du'ers. the next military operation does not have a name yet. here's your chance to help mcpoopiebrain delight his minions with a clever ditty. here's some of mine:
"operation dismember brown guys" "operation petrol seizure" "operation second coming" "operation i want that alot" "operation shut up and die"
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Thu Apr 25th 2024, 10:18 AM
Response to Original message |