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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat should Iraq War 3 be called?
And is it all the same war? Is 1990, 2003, and 2014 just one big war?
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)They already opened diplomatic talks.
Renew Deal
(81,855 posts)And just because they say they don't want it to happen doesn't mean it won't happen.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014837039
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Offensive.
Death and destruction.
Murder.
Misanthropic.
Terrorist recruitment plan.
etc.
Throd
(7,208 posts)Warpy
(111,245 posts)Desert Futility?
Desert Quicksand?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)OPERATION: Still dangerously stupid probably works as well as anything.
We never have any actual mission and/or achievable military objectives. Our objectives are political and we just hammer away with the wrong tool, foolishly wondering what the problem is.
Close as we come on this one is the wickedness of the ISIS rebels (which admits wanting to meddle in a civil war that our "help" sparked and the puppet government poured fuel on) and when asked what is different about who we'd be supporting the response is usually silence, on occasion some mumblings about pent up anger under Hussein (meaning they see the dynamic they hope to seed) and incoherent excuses.
valerief
(53,235 posts)They changed that to something else (Operation Iraqi Freedom, maybe?), because the joke was obvious even to the hoi polloi.
So a new Iraq War might be called Iraq War 3.0. Or the Ditto War. Or the Clone War. Or the Make Rich People Richer War (MaRPeR War).
So many names, so little support.
On edit
I have it! The WAR War. The We Americans Rock War. That'll work for the war ninnies.
Crowquette
(88 posts)Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)does that ever snap in your face when you stretch it that far?
rug
(82,333 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)That's what it's starting to look like. More sacrifice of blood and treasure to justify the earlier wasted expenditures of those things.
It should be called off.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Well you asked
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)the Imperial Cradle of Continuing Chaos Courtesy of Contemptuous Corporate Conflict
MICCCCCCC for short.