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CONTEST: Obama Calls War on Iraq "A New Dawn" -- What Do You Call It? (Limit 8 Words)


By davidswanson - Posted on 19 February 2010

I'll start the entries:

Operation Funnel Unlimited Cash to Killing (OFUCK)

The winner will be announced on an aircraft carrier with a banner! Plus job offer possible for video editing work to insert "rename" in place of "end" in campaign speeches.

Winner gets signed copy of Daybreak, latest issue of Humanist magazine, a bucket of snow, and anything else I can find.

NOTE: Originally thought war being renamed was Afghan, appears to be Iraqi.

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James R. Miles "A recruiting tool for terrorists against U.S."

After all, both are wars of aggression, both are quite apocalyptic for the populations there, ..., and the 9-11 hijackers came from neither of these countries, f.e.

Mike Corbeil

911 hijackers are still alive! After being VAPORIZED! A miracle, no?

It was the "controlled demolitions of 911". Get with the program!

Darwin26

Peace and Justice Forums - Billings, MT co- producer
Veterans for Peace, (disabled Veteran, WIA Viet Nam '67 - '68).
National Accountability Action Network
June 25th Torture Accountability Action Day (group)

David Swanson said the word limit was eight and you used seven, so another word or adjective could be added to your list.

And NeoCon is short for ... not neo-conservative, because while it could be for that meaning, what I had in mind is con as short for "con game". When people play con games with or on others, it's often (enough anyway) referred to as a con. And it's what the Bush Jr-Cheney administration did. They conned the naive, gullible, ... segment of the population into believing that the admin.'s lies for "justifying" war on Iraq were truthful.

But neoconservative could be the alternative meaning if neocon or neo-con was added to your list, since you specified neo-liberal and while the government and military clearly haven't been conserving respect for the Constitution and other laws, conventions and treaties, the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan aren't the first time the government and military have conned the public into believing that the U.S. was warring in a justified manner. There are many (too many) precedents for us to think that these two wars are firsts in terms of the government conning the population into believing that these wars were justified and that the country is truly in danger from foreign terrorists.

So since one more word can be added to make your list one of eight words, the list could be:

Bloody Neo-Liberal Neo-Con Neo-Fascist Zionist Quest for Hegemony

The bloody fascists liberally conned the population into supporting the "zionist quest for hegemony"; although, it's really the Corporate America quest for [global] hegemony, power, dominion, and GREED. The Zionists are only "side benefactors", and because they're also greedy as hell, they push like hell for reining hell on others who aren't their friends, hell.

Hence, a revision could be the following:

Bloody Neo-Liberal Neo-Con Neo-Fascist Corporatie-America-with-Zionist-cheerleading Quest for Hegemony

Or,

Bloody Neo-Liberal Neo-Con Neo-Fascist Corporate-Globalist Quest for Hegemony

Of course we could argue that Corporatie-America-with-Zionist-cheerleading and Corporate-Globalist aren't quite one word.

So,

Bloody Neo-Liberal Neo-Con Neo-Fascist Corporatist Quest for Hegemony

:)

Otoh, since Obama et al are calling their plan Operation New Dawn, I guess the word Operation should be retained; therefore:

Operation Bloody Neo-Liberal Neo-Con Neo-Fascist Global Corporatist Hegemony

Mike Corbeil

But I'm telling them they have to enter contest here. Consider this an experiment in the ease or difficulty of dragging people out of FB or Twitter for 2 seconds.

OPERATION CRIMINALITY,ENDLESS AGGRESSION, NEOCON AMERICA:--- BI-PARTISAN SHIT

(SPELLS O.C.E.A.N.A---B.S., ORWELL'S 1984) YESTERDAY'S ENEMIES BECOME OUR ALLIES)

having 1984 deja vue

"An Old Quagmire"

Imperialism is obsolete!

"American Capitalism Front of Liberation for Indigenousness Resources"

A.C.F.L.I.R.

Someone just wrote me about your little contest on the new name for the Iraq War... you might be amused to see that I had the same impulse! Here's what I posted on the TD Facebook page. Consider it my set of entries:

The Washington Post today reports that the Obama administration has renamed the Iraq War: Operation New Dawn. That sprightly, spiffy new moniker, to go into effect in September, is meant to indicate that American forces are beginning their drawdown from that country. Someday someone should write about military naming practices. I can certainly think of names that might be more apt. Operation Old Mess? Operation Didn’t Work Out So Well. Operation We’re Sorry, Iraqis. New dawn? Dream on.

From people on Facebook:

murder

Operation Flush More Lives Down the Toilet

Fucking for Virginity!

Opration WTF???

Operation Comfort Room

Operation for Greedy Elite Cronies

Surging for War Bucks and/or Let's Widen the S...-Eating-Grin on William Kristol's Mug.

Operation Support Hearts And Minds (OSHAM)

Operation Empire Graveyard, Operation Waterloo, Operation Lockheed Martin, Operation Exxon

Operation Schools, Hospitals Instead of Taliban

CHILD ABUSE. The majority of residents are children and we are blowing them up.

The desolating sacrilege.

The place where innocent civilians and US troops got stuck between Iraq and a greed place...

I'll second that.

Over Extended Occupation

Total Waste of Taxpayer Money

Final Act Before Leaving Iraq

Our Final Exit from Iraq

Four possible names. The last one shows we will soon depart
"Our Final Exit" should be the name, because it promises the occupation is almost over.

has my vote , for what its worth ;-)

ARREST BUSHCO & RICO PNAC/FARA AIPAC...PNAC is Bush/Cheney's "Helter Skelter" !

Chuck Zlatkin
www.chelseaneighborsunited.org

Operation Bombs USA Military Madness Everywhere Redux

OBUMMER

LOL!

Operation Take Iraq's Oil (OTIO)

The Baghdad Follies.

John Heuer

"Junior's Folly"

The War to End All Sanity

"bushs' ticket to Prison"

how about something simple:

Illegal War of Aggression

Or IOWA for short

SoCalGal I like that one! Makes sense too!

LOL!

or TWOT for short

"Operation Hopey Changey - The 2010 Midterm Surge"

elisa
I propose: Festering twilight of the US war lords

Operation WETSAND:
War Escalating Terror & Strategically Allocating NATO Defenses

I'm reading Brzezinski's book to understand what the enemy is thinking. Obama seems to be a regular go-along guy when it comes to world domination.

It's very important to realise they're real and that they really are the sole enemies the USA has; the enemy within, the undomesticated and delusional domestic enemy.

Mike Corbeil

Coalition to Revitalize American Profiteers (CRAP)

I hate that word. But it's perfect to describe this war.

Patricia Herrick, Gold Creek, MT
Bushama's war

"The Barack War"

Arrogance, ignorance and denial continue as if bush and cheney never left the building.

www.tomsongs.com

The never ending Mission Accomplished

LOL!

Lisa Silverman

1. New dub same as the old DUB

2. NNSS
New Name, Same Shame

3. Millions Bleed For Our Greed

Endless Victims of Iraq Leveling (EVIL)

Operation Tears

Tears for those civilians who loose their family and friends.

Tears for those soldiers on all sides who lose their comrades.

Tears for the family members of all soldiers who loose their loved ones.

Tears for all those who sustain life long injuries physical and mental.

Tears for a nation called America that has sunk so low as to be killing over 1.3 million people in three illegal wars of aggression (Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan).

Tears for the loss of a world community that has any courage to stand up against the world's bully - the USA.

Tears for the demise of the United Nations as an organization that fights for peace.

There are just too many tears to go around.

Buzz Davis ImpeachWI.org
Stoughton, WI

txlady: Thank you, Buzz Davis. I vote your entry the absolute winner. Generations to come will be grieving and shedding tears for all who and what died on that shameful night of shock and awe.

Endless Neocon Death-dealing in Iraq Theater (END IT)

War By Another Name Is Quagmire aka WBANIQ

WBANIQ rhymes with bubonic (wu bonic)

The War to Privatize Iraq's Resources

Baath Blood & Beyond

Missile Guidance Systems and Blackwater Buckets 'O Cash

Rhoda

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