Operation Unscramble Eggs

Recently, a New York Times columnist named Nicholas Kristof offered up a contest to readers to come up with a good name for our current war in Iraq (you remember that war, right? The one that Dubya long ago declared we won, even though more than 300 American soldiers have died — not to mention the more than 1,500 Iraqi civilians — since the war was “over,” double the amount that died the during the “active” phase of the war, right?)

Some of my favorites include:

• Shrub’s War
  

• Bushkrieg
  

• Operation Quicksand
  

• Operation Gee Whiz, This Liberation Thing Seemed a Lot Easier When We Were Drawing It Up Back at the Think Tank
  

• Apocalypse Right Now
  

• Mission Implausible
  

• The War of Bush’s Flight Suit
  

• The Charge of the Right Brigade
  

• Operation Unscramble Eggs
  

• War of Mass Deception
  

• Dubya Dubya III
  

• and last, but not least: Blood, Baath and Beyond

“On a serious note, I hope we’ll think often and appreciatively of those Americans who are in Iraq right now. Humor cannot erase their fear and loneliness in the face of Washington’s policy failures, or the heartbreak here in so many homes where bereaved parents, spouses and orphans are struggling in this season to remember why they should be giving thanks.”

Fabulous sites to read the real news:

• The Daily Mislead: a daily chronicle of Bush administration distortion
  

• AlterNet: news about real issues — politics, corporate deception, Molly Ivins, media, culture, environment, etc.
  

• Antiwar.com
  

• CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
  

• U.N.Wire: an independent service covering the United Nations and the world