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Onondaga Nation leaders blast 'Geronimo' codename for Bin Laden
Syracuse NY: The Post-Standard ^ | Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 9:32 PM | Charles McChesney /

Posted on 05/03/2011 8:31:07 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Leaders of the Onondaga Nation blasted as “reprehensible” the assigning of the world’s most wanted terrorist “Geronimo” as a codename.

Bin Laden was killed during an attack on his compound in Pakistan Sunday. “We’ve ID’d Geronimo,” U.S. forces reported by radio to the White House. Later, word came that “Geronimo” was dead.

“Think of the outcry if they had used any other ethnic group’s hero,” the Onondaga Council of Chiefs said in a release Tuesday. “Geronimo bravely and heroically defended his homeland and his people, eventually surrendering and living out the rest of his days peacefully, if in captivity,” the chiefs noted.

“Geronimo is arguably the most recognized Native American name in the world,” the chiefs said, “and this comparison only serves to perpetuate negative stereotypes about our people.”

Geronimo was an Apache leader who fought Mexican and U.S. forces before surrendering to U.S. authorities in 1886. He died in 1909.

(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: apache; binladen; geronimo; insensitive; nativeamerican; obama; obl; osama; stfu
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To: newzjunkey; TsonicTsunami08

When I first heard the story the term Geronimo was the code word to be given when OBL had been taken out. There have been a number of different ways the story has been told since then. I don’t think there is an official version, but the information I first heard was from a reporter who had just finished a telephone briefing from “the most senior administration officials”. Geronimo meant that the mission, the assassination of OBL, had been accomplished. Maybe that reporter got it wrong, but then maybe the reporter who penned this thread got it wrong.


81 posted on 05/04/2011 12:00:45 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Inyo-Mono
I agree with them. Geronimo was an honorable man.

True but the other side of the coin is he never considered himself a victim.

82 posted on 05/04/2011 12:21:05 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
“Think of the outcry if they had used any other ethnic group’s hero,”

Screaming out "Sobieski" or "Charles the Hammer" is fine by me.

83 posted on 05/04/2011 2:30:48 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Teacher317

“The Culture of Offended Victimhood is a very diverse population.”
How true, the “Offeneded Victimhood” is always complaining about being stereotyped and yet they perpetuate it.

The Chief might have some complaint if they had use the term “Hiawatha”.

Also if the Team had said “Got the M..F..” they would have offended a totally different “Victim-hood” I think.


84 posted on 05/04/2011 4:51:24 AM PDT by BilLies (r)
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To: Amberdawn

“I’ve always associated it with jumping out of an airplane, but maybe I’ve watched too much Bug’s Bunny...’

You are correct. I watched too much BB growing up also.

http://www.b-westerns.com/geronimo.htm


85 posted on 05/04/2011 5:25:35 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: lp boonie

Yeah, there was that.

But just as you would not have wanted to play the UConn women after Stanford, I would not have wanted to be the tribe that met the 7th Cav after that.


86 posted on 05/04/2011 5:41:51 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: TwoSwords

Not to get way off the reservation here, (bad pun, I know) but the Indians did not fight according to the Marquis of Queensbury. They were brutal and really did earn the title “savage.” That did not come from their pagan beliefs, but from the brutality of their attacks.

The media has us all thinking they were Chief Dan George, or the “Clean up America” Indian guy.

Geronimo was a bad dude.

Osama was a bad dude.

I guess we could have called him Tojo.


87 posted on 05/04/2011 5:46:09 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: lp boonie

You forgot Fetterman.


88 posted on 05/04/2011 6:32:18 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Vermont Lt

The “Clean up America Indian guy”, Iron Eyes Cody, turns out, from what I’ve read, to have been a Sicilian.


89 posted on 05/04/2011 6:34:37 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: LadyDoc

They [I believe the Jicarillas] also run [from what I hear] a highly successful, and excellent hunting operation.


90 posted on 05/04/2011 6:37:07 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

And they sure as heck aren’t Apache


91 posted on 05/04/2011 7:38:45 AM PDT by Grunthor (http://www.hermancain.com/index.asp)
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To: bigbob

A brilliant FReeper advised yesterday that the code name of the aircraft carrying Moochell is always “the Millennium Falcon”


92 posted on 05/04/2011 7:42:35 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Vermont Lt
the Indians did not fight according to the Marquis of Queensbury. They were brutal and really did earn the title “savage.” That did not come from their pagan beliefs, but from the brutality of their attacks

AT least they didn't take scalps as a business enterprise - to sell. (The gov't paid pretty good.)

93 posted on 05/04/2011 7:54:01 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: maine-iac7

Oh, please do not get me wrong. There was horrific action on both sides. But, after spending a few weeks in Arizona and New Mexico last year, the Native Americans have learned about to take scalps over, and over, and over.


94 posted on 05/04/2011 8:41:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Jeronimo Bucero:

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/manhattan/jeronimo-bucero


95 posted on 05/04/2011 2:52:36 PM PDT by NRG1973
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To: Vermont Lt

My point was clear. They were fighting for their homeland. And since you probably know history you know that we gave as good as we got.


96 posted on 05/04/2011 11:01:55 PM PDT by TwoSwords (The Lord is a man of war, Exodus 15:3)
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To: dayglored

Back at the White House Situation Room, word was relayed that bin Laden had been found, signaled by the code word “Geronimo.” That was not bin Laden’s code name, but rather a representation of the letter “G.” Each step of the mission was labeled alphabetically, and “Geronimo” meant that the raiders had reached step “G,” the killing or capture of bin Laden, two officials said.

Full Story @ link.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_raid

You were saying? Granted it’s the AP and I read it on the internet!
Makes no difference to me what the uninformed think!


97 posted on 05/17/2011 1:57:23 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: P-Marlowe

Back at the White House Situation Room, word was relayed that bin Laden had been found, signaled by the code word “Geronimo.” That was not bin Laden’s code name, but rather a representation of the letter “G.” Each step of the mission was labeled alphabetically, and “Geronimo” meant that the raiders had reached step “G,” the killing or capture of bin Laden, two officials said.

Full Story @ link.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_raid


98 posted on 05/17/2011 2:02:21 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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