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.

[livesbygrace]

Someone on another thread said this was a possibility...as usual, freepers nail it!

[livesbygrace]

oops oops oops...

[martin_fierro]

LOL LOL LOL

[Petronski]

I laughed three times when I found this out.

[Gumption]

What was a possibility? What was a possibility? What was a possibility? What was a possibility?

[John H K]

This is what happens before Public Affairs officers fake a code name...if they do you end up with this being called "Operation Final Justice" or "Operation Justice for Iraq."

REAL code names usually have some sort of humor aspect now (the "Larry, "Moe," and "Curly" objectives in the Battle for Baghdad, etc.

[des]

W O L V E R I N E S ! ! ! ! !

[hole_n_one]

Red Dawn

[COEXERJ145]

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

They just can't write a story without throwing something like that into it.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

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 "Wolverines" was the mascot of the local high school.

Their jackets had the emblem.

When I heard the name of the mission and the name of the target farm houses, I thought someone else liked the movie.

[Lazamataz]

Code name from '84 movie Code name from '84 movie Code name from '84 movie

Really? Really? Really?

[Lazamataz]

I laughed three times when I found this out.

Laugh three times toward the ceilings if you want me.
Twice towards the pipes
If the answer is no.

[Grig]

""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."

Isn't Sheen on the anti-war side? If so I like the irony.

[Joe 6-pack]

The film also featured the clever use of, "spider holes."

[livesbygrace]

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

This line jumped out at me also, they are so blatant in their contempt, the left-wingers make no attempt to hide their prejudice anymore.

[livesbygrace]

Can 'somebody' PLEASE fix the title?

[rface]

wasn't Charlie Sheen the traitor in this movie??

[taxcontrol]

I think I know what movie I'm going to rent tonight - after the church business meeting tonight!!!!

[hole_n_one]

You should *ping* an Admin Mod. You should *ping* an Admin Mod. You should *ping* an Admin Mod.

[Petronski]

I'd make a joke about really wanting you, but I'm afraid you'd show up at my door: a chance I cannot take. ;O)