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While the Geronimo codeword for the bin Laden operation has been widely reported, the Pentagon has not confirmed it. Pentagon officials did not immediately respond to requests for reaction to the objections by Native Americans.
"To equate Geronimo or any other Native American figure with Osama bin Laden, a mass murderer and cowardly terrorist, is painful and offensive to our Tribe and to all native Americans," wrote Jeff Houser, chairman of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, in a letter to President Barack Obama. Houser said that while he was certain the naming of the operation was based on "misunderstood and misconceived historical perspectives of Geronimo and his armed struggle," he demanded a formal apology from Obama.
The U.S. Senate committee needs to look at the prevalence in American society of "these inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures," said Tuell.
"The impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating," she said.
Have you all heard of the controversy surrounding the use of the name Geronimo for the successful military operation that killed Osama bin Laden?
Bin Laden, Geronimo link angers Native Americans - Yahoo! News
Do you agree? Is an apology in order?
(I admit, I'm especially curious what the liberals here think. :mrgreen
I don't understand where they are getting the belief that just because the military names an operation "Operation (blank)", that the (blank) necessarily has to refer to the target.
It has been widely reported that U.S. forces said "Geronimo EKIA (Enemy Killed in Action)" to confirm bin Laden's death.
Probably from this;
We outsource our jobs to native Americans???? :roll:An operations name should bring HONOR to Geronimo!!! Im actually pretty darn pissed with these Indians!!! First they outsource our jobs to them.... now THIS!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrr.........
We outsource our jobs to native Americans???? :roll:
I say no because it was not a slight.
Not a slight?? How bad does the person/target need to be before it counts as a slight?
What if the compound was code word "Wisconsin". You think they'd have a problem with that?
The code name was a bad call. So? The mission was still a resounding success.
Thanks for the correction, Mags.The name of the plan was Operation Neptune Spear. Not Geronimo.
If they had said "George Washington EKIA" would that have offended anyone? Just trying to see how people think about our own heroe's names being used to indicate an enemy.
Last I heard, the code name was for OBL.The reason it was not a slight is because the code name was not for any one person and based on the mission itself.
I've only seen it used in two military jumps, exiting the training tower at Benning. The first time the guy did it, the instructors got pissed - and then he did it again. It was outrageous and certainly not condoned by our instructors.The word has been used in military jumps. This is not a huge deal.
If Geronimo is used in an inspiring sense, then it is ok. Just as Florida State can use the Seminole as its mascot - because it is a positive, an inspiration; however, if Florida State called their opponents 'Seminoles' there'd be a problem.So do you have a problem with it? Or not?
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