And in the continuing parallels being drawn between the US and Germany in the run-up to WWII, the Pentagon asshats didn't do their homework again.
Operation Iron Hammer -- the name of the U.S. military's current crackdown on Saddam loyalists -- was also the name of a Nazi WWII campaign against the Soviets. "Eisenhammer," the German for "iron hammer," was a Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943.
Remember also how after El Busho declared war on terrorism, U.S. officials changed the code name for its impending attack on Afghanistan to Operation Enduring Freedom.
Know why?
The original name, Operation Infinite Justice, was jettisoned amid fears that the Muslim world, already leery of U.S. intentions, would object on the basis of Koranic teachings that only God can provide infinite justice.
Still, not willing to be outdone on the stupidity scale, we're right up there back in the UK:
Some bloke called Roger Bugg had his motor towed away and crushed — because he had left the windows open half an inch. The Ford Escort was destroyed by cops after a traffic warden reported it as a fire hazard. The warden said kids could have dropped a match through the windows, threatening an electricity sub-station. The car and £2,000 worth of tools in it were destroyed.
Seems like that traffic warden needs a lesson in common sense.
Operation Iron Hammer -- the name of the U.S. military's current crackdown on Saddam loyalists -- was also the name of a Nazi WWII campaign against the Soviets. "Eisenhammer," the German for "iron hammer," was a Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943.
Remember also how after El Busho declared war on terrorism, U.S. officials changed the code name for its impending attack on Afghanistan to Operation Enduring Freedom.
Know why?
The original name, Operation Infinite Justice, was jettisoned amid fears that the Muslim world, already leery of U.S. intentions, would object on the basis of Koranic teachings that only God can provide infinite justice.
Still, not willing to be outdone on the stupidity scale, we're right up there back in the UK:
Some bloke called Roger Bugg had his motor towed away and crushed — because he had left the windows open half an inch. The Ford Escort was destroyed by cops after a traffic warden reported it as a fire hazard. The warden said kids could have dropped a match through the windows, threatening an electricity sub-station. The car and £2,000 worth of tools in it were destroyed.
Seems like that traffic warden needs a lesson in common sense.
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