# Name That War! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850 "2002-10-11T18:32:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/1 "2002-10-11T18:32:44Z")
Hey, the coming War in Iraq will need a new catchy name, so that all the Networks may better shove it down the maw of a gullible public. **Operation Desert Storm II?** That’s _lame!_ Can you beat my Top 10? [list=1]**[li] Operation All Up in Saddam’s Biscuit [/li] [li]Operation Protecting America’s Natural Resources, Overseas[/li] [li]The War of the Posers[/li] [li]Operation We’ll Find Osama Eventually[/li] [li]Operation My Name is Diego Montoya[/li] [li]The War of the Posers[/li] [li]Operation Three Card Monte[/li] [li]The Crusades II – The Oil Years[/li] [li]Operation It’s No Longer The Economy, Stupid, Is it? Is It?![/li] [li]Operation Oedipussy[/li][/list=1]** ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/2 "2002-10-11T18:38:22Z")
**Operation Desert W. Storm** ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/3 "2002-10-11T18:40:02Z")
Operation Any-Excuse-Will-Do ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/4 "2002-10-11T18:44:27Z")
Operation Bush… See, if Gore was president, then it would be the cool sounding “Operation Gore!” (good one KneadToKnow ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/5 "2002-10-11T18:45:22Z")
Operation: I Must Be a Real President, Because I Can Star a War! ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/6 "2002-10-11T18:49:55Z")
Operation Bush… See, if Gore was president, then it would be the cool sounding “Operation Gore!” (good one KneadToKnow ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/7 "2002-10-11T18:52:04Z")
Good, good, we needed a new #6! Doh, duplicate. :smack: How about: Operation WE DONT NEED NO STINKING REASON ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/8 "2002-10-11T19:15:15Z")
Operation Cos Ma Daddy Din’t Do It Right The First Time? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/9 "2002-10-11T19:30:02Z")
Darn right he didn’t - hadn’t Bush-Daddy ever heard of contraception? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/10 "2002-10-11T19:45:59Z")
Operashun Preventin’ Nucular Terra? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/11 "2002-10-11T19:56:42Z")
Meet the New Boss! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/12 "2002-10-11T20:15:49Z")
Operation Smoke and Mirrors? ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/13 "2002-10-11T20:17:19Z")
**Operation Poppy-Cock** **October Surprise, Part II** **The Battle for the 108th Congress** _ **Bullshitzkrieg** _ ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/14 "2002-10-11T20:20:20Z")
**Operation Maintain an Election Desert Storm II: This Time it’s Personal** ---
**Author:** ![Powers106](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Powers106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers106)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/15 "2002-10-11T20:35:31Z")
**Operation Saddam Easy!** 😃 (you might have to say it out loud…) ---
**Author:** ![pbrtallboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@pbrtallboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbrtallboy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/16 "2002-10-11T21:43:28Z")
> [@](#): > > **Operation Desert Storm II?** > > That’s _lame!_ Operation Desert Storm II: Electric Boogaloo! 😛 How about: “Operation No New Axes?” Related: is OutKast’s “Bombs Over Baghdad” gonna be the new “Rock the Casbah?” ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/17 "2002-10-11T22:07:25Z")
The Clash rocks! Didn’t Rage Against the Machine have a song “Bullets Over Baghdad”? My vote: **Operation Desert Storm II: _This_ Time, It’s Personal!** ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/18 "2002-10-11T22:33:15Z")
Operation I Got Confused With All That Economy Stuff Operation Operation Enduring Freedom’s Stagnating Operation Everyone Who Doesn’t Agree With Me Is a Terrorist Operation Vote The B_st_rds Out…oh wait. That’s my personal rampage in three weeks. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/19 "2002-10-11T23:26:30Z")
YES! Kick the bastards out! hoo! Operation Installing Democracy by Force Operation Peacemaker Operation Does anyone here speak English? Operation Getting our Chemical Weapons Back Operation Reagan’s Legacy Operation Hello Dad Guess Where Im Calling From ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850/20 "2002-10-11T23:51:18Z")
Operation Enron Who? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-war/131850.md?page=2)