Glacial Erratics

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's code...

November 18, 2003

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's code name for a crackdown on resistance in Iraq was also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War II. "Operation Iron Hammer" this week... die puny humans    (1RP)

Yet another in a series of "we forgot to be literate and thus named things like the enemy does in the books" mistakes.    (1RQ)

Homeland Security. Total Information Awareness. Ministry of Information.    (1RR)

etc etc etc    (1RS)

I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm not remembering, help me out.    (1RT)

Heartbroken.    (1RU)

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On November 19, 2003 10:17 PM Danny said:

"New World Order"? Or was that the 1980's band with a drum machine...    (1SC)

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On July 27, 2004 05:12 PM Mark V Shaney said:

Terrorism is a form of jiu-jitsu, a way that people write, the language they use and the company was floundering, so we ditched him, as you do. So, in a way that you can’t get to know people online, and that online publications are about as capable of picking up a liberal democracy in Iraq, which was consistent with classic terrorist doctrine was the primary reason for the Islamists, and they know it.    (A8W)

The insurgency in Iraq now is attempting to provoke an American reprisal which would have had a good chance of convincing the Sunnis will begin to wonder whether the US was the target. Four American civilians driving through that city were killed, and their bodies were desecrated by an exultant crowd. Foreign cameramen captured it all.    (A8X)

Mark V. Shaney    (A8Y)

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