Operation WHAT?

Operation Hey, Do They Even Have Any Fucking Oil In This Godforsaken, Rat-Infested, Backwards-Ass, Mysogynistic, No-Shaving, Just-Got-Elctricity-Last-Week, 13th Century Pimple-On-The-Ass-Of-Humanity Country?
 
I'd explain it, but Emily Yoffe does a lovely job.

http://slate.msn.com/code/explainer/explainer.asp?Show=9/17/2001&idMessage=8312

"The Defense Department announced that the code name for the domestic mission to protect this country in response to Tuesday's terrorist attack is Operation Noble Eagle. How does the military choose its code words?

In general, the first step is that a computer database of appropriately military sounding words spits out possible combinations, with each geographic command given rights to certain letters of the alphabet. The command overseeing the operation chooses candidates--after checking through a registry of previously used names--and sends it to the Joint Staff for review and approval. (The director of operations of the Joint Staff, Lt. General Gregory S. Newbold, has a name worthy of a military operation.) It wasn't a brilliant algorithm that came up with the code word Desert Storm for the invasion of Iraq--that was deliberately chosen.

Winston Churchill, who personally vetted many of the British military code words, ordered that they should be neither overly boastful, nor frivolous. No mother, he wrote, should have to say "that her son was killed in an operation called 'Bunnybug.' " "

See what computers have done for the military? They used to have people who came up with the submitted list, now computers do it.
 
*pops in from his usual other whereabouts*

I just have to say that Operation Sledgehammer Kiss has a certain ring to it....
 
How about

Here's some ideas :)

Operation Bin Bag...(from Bin Laden....geddit?)

Operation Flamethrower up the ass

Operation Kill The Fucker

Operation FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition)

Operation Rusty Nail in the 'Nads
 
They are changing the name

It looks like they are gonna change the name of the operation. The infinite justice one was improperly leaked. They are also changing it for some other reasons. Some Islamic scholars have pointed out that according to the Koran only Alah can hand out Infinite Justice. We don't want to offend any more Muslims then we have already do please god change the damn name.


Oh and I also personaly belive that Bush saw the name of this plan and said something to the effect of, "Infinite Justice what the hell guys. I mean we all know i have little skill with words or phrases and I could have come up with a better term then that."
 
What did you expect from a guy

that quotes Bible verses at me?

The name is politcally motivated. Period.
 
Well... it could be worse. It could be Attack of the Clones.

Which computer spit that one out?
 
Code name?

Uh, why give the operation a code name if you're going to announce it at a press conference? I mean, why does it need a name? It's a war. It's not an album. It's not a new laundry detergent.

When we invaded Normandy, we called it Operation "Overlord", and that code name was a closely guarded secret, because the whole thing was, uh, a secret. Operation "Desert Storm"? That's just marketing. Otherwise it'd be called Operation "Maple Syrup" or Operation "Britney".

Don't know why I put the words "Maple Syrup" and "Britney" together. Freudian slip. Pretty good one, too.
 
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