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Code name from '84 movie "Operation Red Dawn"
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Posted on 12/14/2003 11:58:52 AM PST by livesbygrace
Washington - "Operation Red Dawn," the code name for the US raid which resulted in the capture of Saddam Hussein, appears to have been inspired by a 1984 film in which US teenagers battle a Soviet invasion of the United States.
Announcing Saddam's capture, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the top US military commander in Iraq, said Operation Red Dawn was conducted by US troops against locations identified as "Wolverine One" and "Wolverine Two."
The former Iraqi leader was found, according to Sanchez, hiding in a hole at the location known as "Wolverine Two."
"Red Dawn," starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Harry Dean Stanton and Powers Boothe, takes place in a typical small town in the midwest of the United States at the outbreak of World War III.
Following an invasion of the United States by communist Cuban, Nicaraguan and Soviet forces a group of high school students band together to form a guerrilla resistance unit known as the "Wolverines," after the bear-like creature known for its ferocity.
The gun-toting teenage US guerrillas spend the film, made at the height of the Cold War, fighting back heroically against the more heavily armed invaders.
Directed by John Milius, who co-wrote Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," the movie is something of a cult film among right-wing US extremists and is held up as a Second Amendment cautionary tale by some opponents of gun control.
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution regards the right of the populace to bear arms.
"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed," it says.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: operationreddawn; reddawn; righttobeararms; wolverineone; wolverinetwo
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To: rface
C. Thomas Howell
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:32:40 PM PST
by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: dk88
John has a long mustache? I gotta go.
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:42:04 PM PST
by
Gumption
To: rface
nope ... hero ...
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:44:05 PM PST
by
Bobby777
To: steveo
Great! Now I've got that annoying song in my head. Thanks. ;^)
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:45:47 PM PST
by
Gumption
To: livesbygrace
I picked out 'Red Dawn' as soon as I heard it. Its one of my fav's.
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:46:09 PM PST
by
vladog
To: livesbygrace
Red sky at night, sailors' delight.
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:47:22 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Shooter 2.5
The traitor was the mayors son. C Thomas Howell was the one who shot him.
By the way, in Red Dawn, Europe sat out the war also.
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posted on
12/14/2003 12:57:40 PM PST
by
Sapper26
To: Sapper26
Best line in the movie: Powers Booth sees C. Thomas Howell carving notches on the stock of his AK-47 for all the Russians/Cubans he's killed. Booth says, "Son, all that hate is gonna burn you up inside." C. Thomas Howell looks at him and flashes a sick smile... "It keeps me warm at night."
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:15:53 PM PST
by
Terabitten
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of All Who Threaten It)
To: livesbygrace
" the movie is something of a cult film among right-wing US extremists and is held up as a Second Amendment cautionary tale by some opponents of gun control.I resemble that! I have the movie in my personal collection, also. If someone wants to argue the 2nd Amendment, I just hand it to them. Yes, there's a late fee.
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:34:17 PM PST
by
elbucko
(Try "SPAMMO", ammo, the next time your hunting "Towelheads".)
To: Sapper26
Thanks for the correction. I saw the movie when it came out and I couldn't really remember.
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:34:54 PM PST
by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: livesbygrace
judging from saddams condition it could have been dirty dancing
To: Lazamataz
Where is your leaf lower?
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:37:30 PM PST
by
elbucko
(Try "SPAMMO", ammo, the next time your hunting "Towelheads".)
To: livesbygrace
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:37:56 PM PST
by
truthandlife
("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
To: dk88
There is a fire at the travel agency.
It wounds my heart with monotonous langor.
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:55:29 PM PST
by
Finalapproach29er
("Don't shoot Mongo, you'll only make him mad.")
To: livesbygrace
Senator Tom Dashole was reportedly "deeply saddened" by today's news.
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posted on
12/14/2003 1:59:18 PM PST
by
SAMWolf
(Bush Pulls an Ace out of the hole!)
To: Sapper26
Question: Well who's on our side then? Anwser: 600 million screeming Chinamen. Question: I thought there were 1 billion screaming Chinamen? Anwser: There were.
To: Tribune7
ping
To: livesbygrace
I really enjoyed the movie (and virtually everything John Milius has done), but I'm not to keen on the US relating itself to a communist invader(!)
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posted on
12/14/2003 2:04:26 PM PST
by
The Duke
To: dk88
Wounds my heart with a monotonous langour!
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posted on
12/14/2003 2:05:29 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: elbucko
As you were, that should read:
Where is his leaf blower?
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posted on
12/14/2003 2:08:00 PM PST
by
elbucko
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