Operation "Phantom Fury" is underway in Fallujah...not making it up

[mopaul]

what the fuck is this, a batman comic?

[gratuitous]

1. Why not Phantom Menace?

Oh wait, that one's been done.

Yes, we live in comic book times.

[Village Idiot]

19. Operation Phantom Menace

began in 1991....remember the troop / tank buldup on the Saudi Border...

began again in 2003...with Saddam-9/11-WMD.

[mhr]

2. The Pentagon Ran Out Of Operational Names And Dipped Into

Marvel Comic Books for inspiration.

[ewagner]

3. Where did you

hear that it is underway?

on edit: BTW what time is it in Baghdad? My suspicion is that the assault will be a night-time operation.

[mopaul]

7. it's on cable news, today is the big day...and yes, night just fell...n/t

[Stephanie]

4. Holy Bushera, Batman, our whole lives are a cartoon now.

That's all I could think about when the OBL tape came out - BATMAN.

[gWbush is Mabus]

5. sounds like a new X-Box game (recruitment tool?)

[gratuitous]

15. Yeah, it's just like X-box

Except you die.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Who thinks up these names?

Some testosterone-crazed teenaged video gamer with the world's biggest comic book collection? Jeez, as if the whole thing weren't embarrassing enough already.

[hatrack]

8. What next? Operation The Fury? Operation Carrie?

Operation Scanners?

Unbelievable.

[Mike03]

11. Fellow De Palma fan?? NT

[Mike03]

12. Phantoms of the Paradise

Mission: Quagmire. Femme Fiasco.

Attack of the Clowns... I better shut up now.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Operation "F 'em up good" already taken? *sigh*

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[mopaul]

10. Operation "Falluha is FUCKED"

OR, operation christ is king

[LisaL]

13. Sounds more like a vacuum cleaner,

[mopaul]

14. a slaughter is expected

[pen dragon]

16. Operation Kill 'em all, let Dubya sort 'em out

[mopaul]

17. Shock and awe, phase two

just heard a marine on a phone outside fallujah say that they expect heavy casualties on both sides and it could go on for a month or two.

sounds like there'll be no quarter given

[pen dragon]

18. Bush's Stalingrad

[Village Idiot]

20. Nope - it's a VACCUUM!!!

As in the CLEANSING of Fallujah is now underway!

[mopaul]

21. 90,000 people in fallujah, not fighters, just people

[K-W]

22. These people are playing G.I. Joe with American lives.

This really is a game to alot of these people. They actually sit around calling this operation phantom fury.