"Infinite Justice" offensive to Muslims

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[van_erwin]

I just heard Donald Rumsfeld on the radio answering reporters' questions, and one reporter asked if the operation in the middle east would really be named "Infinite Justice."
When Rumsfeld replied that he had 'heard' the name, but that it might not be the actual name of the action, the reporter replied that he had spoken to Muslim clerics, and that "infinite justice" was offensive because "only Allah can provide infinite justice."
To which Rumsfeld replied that we would not name it anything that might be offensive!

Thoughts?

[Nevermore]

I think that we have, over the past several decades, worried too much about how incidental remarks might offend someone. Imagining what kind of things do - or even more unimaginable, what does NOT - offend a Muslim cleric, is enough to make me sick. I find THEM and their ilk insulting.

Are any of these clerics offended at the millions of Muslim hatemongers, like Arafat & Co.? If so, they've been remarkably mute about it.

I'd turn a deaf ear to this kind of (seemingly insincere) whining.

[Salvation]

It's too late ... the name is out and being used.

And rightly so!

[IowaHawk]

Operation Ewwwww... That's Probably Gonna Leave a Bruise
Operation 50 Megaton Suppository

[max61]

Who cares what terrorists think about what we call our struggle for freedom?

Take some Thorazine, you need it.

---max

[Kevin Curry]

Wow! If the name gets their knickers in a twist, what will the falling bombs do?!?

It's already happening. Political correctness--the need to be "compassionate" and tolerant of everyone's tender feelings--is more important than the struggle for life itself.

[christine]

How about "Operation Kill the F*CKING terrorists?" Would that make you feel better?

LOL! :)

[DWSUWF]

"..."The Urdu-language newspaper, the Punjab Post, offered 400,000 rupees to anyone who killed an American."..."

Our youngest showed an inclination to write on the wall in 'Urdu' when he was a toddler...

But we were able to nip it in the bud by moving his bed away from the wall and switching him to a tighter fitting diaper.

[mdwakeup]

Oops! Looks now like they're gonna change it. . .

[NYC GOP Chick]

The Urdu-language newspaper, the Punjab Post, offered 400,000 rupees to anyone who killed an American.

Wow. A whole $6,235.39?

[tm22721]

Operation SWINE would send the right message although they won't care much after they're dead.

BUMP

[Ol' Sparky]

Islamic maniacs even take political correctness to an extreme. But it's a little too late to be concerned with ticking them off. They simply need to be eliminated or deterred.

[WIMom]

Perfect name.

[Bigoleelephant]

I prefer Operation: F!ck You!

[Ol' Sparky]

Islamic maniacs even take political correctness to an extreme. But it's a little too late to be concerned with ticking them off. They simply need to be eliminated or deterred.

[maestro]

Your# 134) LOL (yet, that 'is' what it 'is' really about. somebody has to 'do' the infrastructure contracts.)
IMHO

[Salvation]

LOL at all your names! Thanks for the humor!

[WIMom]

I believe President Bush will not kowtow to PC. His "$2 million missle hitting a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt" quote convenced me of that.

[Come get it]

'Operation Nuke Death to the Goat F***ing Sand Hoboes'

ROTFLOL!

[AgThorn]

All the more reason that INFINITE JUSTICE makes more sense .... since GOD is on our side, agsinst the infidels camaflauged as Islamic fundamentals..... Just don't think these talking heads have any cahonies to say that though.

With a few exceptions, allowing for Bill O'Reilly and a very short list of others.

[bluetoad]

"The Urdu-language newspaper, the Punjab Post, offered 400,000 rupees to anyone who killed an American."

Declaration of WAR!!!

hmmm... Nothing here, move along...