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    Default I Guess It Should Have Been Operation "George"

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/201...n-mission.html

    Some Native Americans are upset over the codename used for the attack on Osama (Usama depending on where you get the story) bin Laden's compound.
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    The'll get over it. Bin Ladin on the other hand.......
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    I never get this stuff. They could have used codename Onceler, and I wouldn't care, as long as they got him...

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    onceler is not your real name...when i first heard the name i thought the same thing...why would they link geronimo or any other person alive or dead (besides hitler etc) to one of the world's most vilified figures?

    they have a point

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    Wasn't it just a few years back a member of CBC asked why black names weren't used as hurricane names? This is just me but if my name were used in an operation to kill the most wanted man on the planet I would be pretty damn proud.

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    Geronimo is a name often used in military operation, and in the alphabet, why are they complaining now?

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    The way the stories keep changing they may have given him the name Waldo
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    because it's in keeping with America's racist tradition, so much so we don't see the problem till the agrieved injun speaks up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Topspin View Post
    because it's in keeping with America's racist tradition, so much so we don't see the problem till the agrieved injun speaks up.
    Geronimo was a warrior, known for his escape tactics and out smarting the US military, why would they be offended over this? Geronimo was the cry used by paratroopers in WWII, when they jumped! An American Indian could have started the tradition for all we know?

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    Linking the worlds most hated criminal to an Indian Hero
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    Quote Originally Posted by King of Kings View Post
    When I saw the story, I predicted outrage over the call sign. Looks like have have my fellow mankind down pretty well.

    Personally, I would have gone with something demeaning for the Big O's call sign, such as Shemale, Felcher, Mott, Herpes, etc.
    How about pig sucker...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topspin View Post
    Linking KILLING the worlds most hated criminal to an Indian Hero
    Added a very necessary detail there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rana View Post
    Geronimo is a name often used in military operation, and in the alphabet, why are they complaining now?
    Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu...

    Geronimo is not used in the alphabet. Although it is very often used as a code word. Seriously, it's just a code word there is nothing meant by it, other than not letting anybody listening in hear you saying, "That Osama Guy" and tipping them off...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu...

    Geronimo is not used in the alphabet. Although it is very often used as a code word. Seriously, it's just a code word there is nothing meant by it, other than not letting anybody listening in hear you saying, "That Osama Guy" and tipping them off...
    code words are generated by computer to prevent them being associated with the actual project
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