Thank God I don’t have an officemate right now - if I did, he’d be wondering what sort of seizure has overtaken me…first Angel’s post, then Podkayne’s…and finally thinksnow with the coup de grace!
The greatest thing about that comment is that BunnyGirl is on vacation and by the time she gets back, this thread should be out of sight. 
Were it my decision, I’d be inclined to take the best from coosa & Ravendriver’s suggestions, and go with Operation Desert Whoopass.
It’s perfect…it carries on the ‘Desert’ theme, AND has that down-home Texas twang that makes it uniquely Dubya’s.
AotL: military ops which mention bunnies are historically doomed to escalate until Weapons of Mass Destruction are used. (ref. ‘Monty Python/Holy Grail’)
Aren’t operation names supposed to be random? I thought they ran them through a computer and came up with what they come up with.
I like the suggestion Rosebud had in another thread.
Taliboom
Well originally, sure…but ‘Operation:VELVET DIPTHONG’ doesn’t lend itself to memorabilia.
Synchronicity: as of a few minutes ago, 19:56 CDT, Phil Hendrie officially endorsed ‘Operation Kickass.’
Another suggestion, courtesy of [url link=“http://www.boortz.com/nealznuz.htm”]Neil Boortz:
C’mon, thinksnow, you know durn well you’re going to bump this thread the day she gets back from vacation.
In that line of reasoning, why don’t we just call it Operation Holy Hand Grenade? Shoot, I’d support anything with that name.
Speaking strictly as a copy editor, should that be WHOOPASS or WHUPASS?
For our newspaper’s style book, of course. Takes just as much effort to get things right as wrong, you know.
During WWII Winston Churchill intervened in the naming of military operations and a lot of effort was made to assemble a vast list of appropriate words that could be used. The most well known are the words from D-Day, “Overlord” “Sword” Juno" etc.
Churchill’s main concern was that families of soldiers killed did not have to live with the memory of their son dying for something with a name that lacked dignity…Operation “Jester” or “Circus”.
Churchill’s comment on his devotion of energy to such a seemingly trivial matter was:
“The successful and effective administration manifests itself in small as well as great matters”.
sigh Probably the most accurate name. 
Sigh, Al, how I wish that someone connected with this administration had half the literary talent that Churchill had! Then, at least, we’d have Bush out there giving better speeches than what he has of late. I hate to say it, but I think that historians are going to have a hard time glorifying this war, no matter how correct it might be. Why couldn’t they call this “Operation Thunderstrike” or something equally dramatic?
I nominate
Operation Desert Storm II: Electric Boogaloo
I’ll admit I’m biased, but I thought he did a fairly good job this evening.
Because FACs wanted to call in A-10 strikes with “TAKE OFF EVERY HOG FOR INFINITE JUSTICE”.
[sub]
saddam: what happen?
osama: someone set us up the bomb!
bush: all your ass are belong to U.S.
[/sub]
Since this thread has degenerated somewhat, I feel comfortable jumping in and adding the obvious:
Operation Can Opener
(Y’know, ‘open a can of…’ … never mind.)
Operation Insinuated Rhetoric
Too highbrow?
We could also use Inflammatory Rhetoric and Hyperbolic Rhetoric.
Operation Untenable Demands
Too obvious?
Operation Maximum Violence or maybe Operation Maximum Bloodshed
Kinda says it all.
Operation Return To Sender
A little more apt.
Operation Big Fuckin’ Hammer
“Prepare to initiate Operation Big Fuckin’ Hammer!” Heck, I’d pay to see that on CNN!
Operation Fresh Fruit or perhaps Operation Pointy Stick
For you Monty Python fans.
Operation Do The Dew
Corporate sponsorship! Just what every war needs.
I still like Operation Fused-Glass Wasteland but I used that one already.
Operation: Operation
Get the tweezers, troops, we’re after his funnybone!
Operation Goat Flatulence
Okay, now I’m reaching…
I’m partial to Operation Nuke the Fuckers myself.
Well, nothing could be worse than cnn’s “america’s new war”.
Agreed. Everytime I see “America’s New War,” I expect it to be followed by “Now with Long-Lasting Flavor Crystals!”
Seriously, though…thanks to all who responded. It’s good to see that I’m not the only one a bit disturbed by the way this is being sanitized, shrink-wrapped, and shoveled out the door.