Whoops, they did it again. - First it was Operation Infinite Justice in Afghanistan, now it’s Operation Iron Hammer in Iraq.
(For those of you who slept through History 101, Operation Iron Hammer was the Nazi plan to destroy Soviet power grids around the end of World War II. Eisenhammer failed when the Allies bombed out the Luftwaffe in 1945. I wonder how successful Operation Iron Hammer will be now.)
Of course, some people will have a field day with this. They’ll relate it to Herr Gropenfuehrer being elected Chancellor of the Californische Bundesrepublic. They’ll make comments about Oberreichscommandant Rumsfeld and his Fatherland Defense Agency. They’ll make innuendo about Georg Busch choking on a German pretzel and finally learning how to speak Polish.
I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. It’s been Operation Iron Hammer for how long now, a few weeks at least? And it’s just now becoming newsworthy. Must be a slow day…
I was going to post a thread in GQ about this, wondering if it’s common for code names to be recycled. After thinking about it, I figured it has to happen sometimes. I can’t imagine two generals sitting around the table discussing code names. “Sir, we used Operation Overlord already.” “Well, damn it! All the cool sounding names have been taken already. Guess we’ll have to stick with Operation Camel Toe.”
And it sure beats the hell out of “Operation We’re Here To Liberate You And We’re Not After Your Oil, Honestly”, a name that was quickly abandoned in the early stages of planning Gulf War 2.0.
