Obama's Top 10 Rejected Mission Names:

[Bailey Guns]

Apparently the White House tossed out a number of perfectly good names before arriving at "Operation Odyssey Dawn":

10. Operation Nine Months In The Senate Didn't Prepare Me For This
9. Operation Organizing for Libya
8. Operation Double Standard
7. Operation FINE! I'll Do Something
6. Operation Enduring Narcissism
5. Operation So That's What the Red Button Does
4. Operation France Backed Me Into A Corner
3. Operation Start Without Me
2. Operation Unlike Bush Wars This One Is Justified Because...hey, look. A squirrel
1. Operation Aimless Fury

(Stolen from "The Pariot Post")

[2008f450]

You forgot

Operation we inherited this problem with the economy from the last administration

[Bailey Guns]

You forgot

Operation we inherited this problem with the economy from the last administration

OK...top 11 rejected names! [Coffee]

[ChunkyMonkey]

Easy on the caffeine this morning, Bailey! [Coffee]

[Bailey Guns]

I have to have caffeine to keep my heart rate up there with my blood pressure.

[hollohas]

Ha! Maybe they should have rejected the one they went with too...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/25/odyssey-limited-engagement-libya-mission-title-sends-confusing-signal/



'Odyssey' or Limited Engagement? Libya Mission Title Sends Confusing Signal

In Homer's Odyssey, protagonist Odysseus spends 10 years trying to reach Ithaca, encountering sirens and a cyclops along the way.
In President Obama's "odyssey," the U.S. military gets involved in a limited engagement against the "mad dog" of the Middle East -- only one that's supposed to settle down in a matter of days.
As the U.S. military now concedes, perhaps "Operation Odyssey Dawn" wasn't the best name for this supposedly in-and-out mission.
"We probably should have chosen something else, because people have read into that -- some type of long, enduring voyage," Eric Elliott, spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, told FoxNews.com.
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But with a name like "odyssey," it's hard to make that case.
The title of what may or may not be the United States' third concurrent war in a Muslim country rings of something epic. Like a Greek poem. Like a prog rock song (see The Dixie Dregs' seven-and-a-half-minute "Odyssey"). Like a convoluted Stanley Kubrick film that leaves viewers bewildered and unfulfilled.
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Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a senior fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, said "Odyssey Dawn" doesn't send the right signal for a mission already under criticism for potentially being open-ended.
"It kind of denotes almost a wandering around the landscape," he said. "Odyssey, in this case ... reinforces the bad perceptions already out there."

[HBARleatherneck]

how about...

operation glass parking lot?

or

operation free oil?

then Im in.

[jerrymrc]

I just think of all the good names we should have used over the years that were/are not PC. [Muaha]

[BPTactical]

A couple come to mind:

Operation: "Incompetent Leader"

Operation: "Piss Off More of My Muslim Brothers"

Operation: "Shit all over Israel Some More"

[Irving]

Odyssey is also the name of Honda's minivan. So what?

[Byte Stryke]

Odyssey is also the name of Honda's minivan. So what?


and fixing one of those is a long arduous and expensive endeavor yielding little fruit as well.


If you wanted a short war they should have stuck with something like

Operation weekend pass
Operation spring break
Operation Morning sex


all of those are very brief or often interrupted
[ROFL1]