Code name from '84 movie "Operation Red Dawn"

NEWS 24 ^ | 12/14/2003 | unknown

[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.

[Joy Angela]

Next Capture:

HILLARY

[chudogg]

"the movie is something of a cult film among right-wing US extremists

WTF??? They can't just write that it's a good movie? The media won't even describe Michael Moore's movies like that

[Joy Angela]

No, the US is fighting the Communist Invaders.

WE get the bad guys,

In the Movie
and in REAL life.

Next Capture...

HILLARY

[Joy Angela]

You got it.

"Michael Moore, director of leftist-extremist cult pictures..."

Now that I'd
love to read!

[padfoot_lover]

Red Dawn ping!

[Jim Noble]

I have the DVD

Me, too.

We should start a top ten right-wing extremist DVD list, or, "You know you're a right-wing extremist if you own..." list.

Going out to all our brothers and sisters trapped behind enemy lines in the blue zone...John has a long mustache...John has a long mustache...the hour of your liberation is near at hand...

[longtermmemmory]

If I owned the rights to the DVD, I would be getting together a true "cult" feeding classic. Some real anti commie extras. (like the reds really did fear the fact of private individual gun rights ownership)

This would be a holiday special edition money maker.

[JustPiper]

People have been sick of me saying Red Dawn to everything ;)

[faithincowboys]

Of course it was, the minute I heard it I knew. That was a great movie.

[Tribune7]

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

Gee, they make that sound like it's bad or something.

[Tribune7]

Here's CNN's review of Red Dawn. On any other day it would require a barf alert but now you can laugh and laugh and laugh.

WOLVERINES

[Jim Noble]

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

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[Tribune7]

What's the capital of Texas?

Austin

Wrong! It's Houston.

[Tribune7]

Not that there's anything wrong with that..

Soytinly not. It resembles me.

[monkeywrench]

"Next Capture...

HILLARY"

Un-hunh. Then, we'd have the "Free the Whales" crowd make a resurgence...

[Kensei]

Of course, the line I always remember from that movie:

"It's 12:01 America. Another day closer to victory."

[mtbopfuyn]

This morning when FNC mentioned "Red Dawn", I immediately thought of the movie and my second thought was no way because it surely didn't bode well for our side. In the movie the kids were doomed to lose in the end and the invading troops were the bad guys. Perhaps Sheen offered to name the mission. I didn't remember Jennifer Grey was in it but assumed she and cousin (!) Patrick met in "Dirty Dancing".

[Jack Black]

the "Wolverines," after the bear-like creature known for its ferocity.

Actually while bear like is a good description they are essentially giant weasels. They are fearsome and have been known to fight bears for their kills. They are quite solitary. Here's a nice pic:

[rabidralph]

you never know how funny FR is until you have abdominal surgery and the belly laughs have you doubled over in pain and guffaws. I just got out of the hospital and I've been trying to read these capture threads (saw the big news from my hospital bed this morning) and I cannot get through a dozen posts without someone cracking me up. I cannot read anymore. You guys are the best.

[Ichneumon]

Actually while bear like is a good description they are essentially giant weasels.

Smile when ya say that, bub.