The Coming Mosul Massacre is called... "Operation Founding Fathers"!

[leftchick]

Who thinks up these ridiculous names?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6836621/

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Operation Founding Fathers

The U.S. strategy is aimed at stabilizing the city over the next two weeks, then allowing Iraqi security forces to protect polling sites on election day. The mission, dubbed Operation Founding Fathers, is complex: U.S. soldiers were still scouting potential polling places in Mosul last weekend, evaluating them as much for their vulnerability as for their convenience to Iraqi voters.

During a meeting Sunday with U.S. and Iraqi commanders, Mosul's chief of police, Ahmed Muhammed Ishelif, warned that insurgents had stolen a half-dozen blue-and-white sport-utility vehicles from the depleted Mosul police department and were reportedly planning to use them as car bombs on election day.

Although the U.S. strategy aims to assure peace on election day by routing insurgents beforehand, American officers acknowledge that the operation could instead produce violence that might threaten the election's integrity.

At the end of a simulation exercise Saturday in preparation for the elections, an officer asked Lt. Col. Dave Miller, the 1st Battalion's commander, about a scenario in which a polling site was overrun by insurgents who had either killed the Iraqi security forces or forced them to flee.

[franksumatra]

1. "Operation Nazi Slaughter" might be more descriptive.

I think KKKarl Rove thinks them up, and they pick the most ridiculous one. The founding fathers would be so proud of us.

[RBHam]

2. Yeah, thank God a foreign power kicked out the British...

And commanded Americans to accept Democracy through force...

The parallels are incredible!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. by "stabilizing the city"

do they mean reduce it to rubble like they did Falujah?

[TomClash]

4. Next up

Operation Peace

[Gasping4Truth]

5. Orwellian language abuse - eom

[Jacobin]

6. Putting perfume on a skunk

[Dangerman]

7. More like putting gasoline into the fireplace!

[ladjf]

8. How about calling it "FALLUJA II" ?

The U.S. might has well gone and and leveled the entire urban area of Iraq. It's what the REALLY want to do. The Iraqi's are interfering with the U.S. ability to seize the oil.