Administration recasts Iraq war with new name: "Operation New Dawn"

[heli]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805888.html?hpid=topnews

Administration recasts Iraq war with new name
By Greg Jaffe
Washington Post staff writer

The Obama adminstration has decided to give the war in Iraq a new name -- "Operation New Dawn" -- to reflect the reduced role U.S. troops will play in securing the country this year as troop levels fall, according to a memo from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

Since U.S. forces charged across the Kuwaiti border toward Baghdad in 2003, the war has been known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. The new name is scheduled to take effect in September, when U.S. troop levels are supposed to drop to about 50,000. The name change was first reported by ABC News, which posted the memo on its Web site. In the Feb. 17 memo, Gates wrote that the name change seeks to "recognize our evolving relationship with the Government of Iraq."

Military Families United, a Washington-based advocacy group that has opposed Obama administration policies such as moving prisoners from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S., rapped the name change as empty "public relations tactics."

"You cannot end a war simply by changing its name," said Brian Wise, the group's executive director, in an e-mailed statement to the Associated Press. "Despite the administration's efforts to spin realities on the ground, their efforts do not change the situation at hand in Iraq."...

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Putting new lipstick on a pig...

[ShortnFiery]

1. Meet the new boss ... just a continuation of BushCo's American Crusade 2001+

Take your Orwell off the shelf?

[ThomCat]

2. They'll declare the war over soon, and all that will change is the

announcement. :(

Hell, we might even have a troupe buildup after the war has officially ended. They'll come up with some official excuse for needed to send in tens of thousands more "military advisers to help with law and order" or some such nonsense.

[leeroysphitz]

3. Jesus. n/t

[leftstreet]

4. Sounds like a straight to video movie title

dumb

[leeroysphitz]

5. Yep.

[leftstreet]

6. LOL

:rofl:

[Smashcut]

7. Another exercise in deceptive branding.

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