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Senate Hearing to Examine ‘Inappropriate’ Use of OBL Mission Codename ‘Geronimo’
A previously scheduled Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on racist Native American stereotypes will now include discussion on the use of a codename used during the bin Laden kill-or-capture mission: “Geronimo.”
A committee aide told ABC News today that linking the name of the native American leader with the world’s most wanted man is “inappropriate” and can have a “devastating” impact on kids.
“The hearing was scheduled well before the Osama bin Laden operation became news, but the concerns over the linking of the name of Geronimo, one of the greatest Native American heroes, with the most hated enemies of the United States is an example of the kinds of issues we intended to address at Thursday’s hearing,” Loretta Tuell, the committee’s chief counsel, said in a statement.
“These inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures are prevalent throughout our society, and the impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating,” Tuell added. “We intend to open the forum to talk about them.”
“A Native frame of reference is one that is inundated with appropriation and misrepresentation of who we were, and who we are today,” Debbie Reese, a native American, writes on the Wall Street Journal website. “There are research studies that point to the negative effects of this sort of imagery on the self-esteem and self-efficacy of Native children. There are other studies that point to the high rates of suicide, and, to the high drop-out rates of our children.”
She adds: “If your (non-Native) point of view is Geronimo as the courageous leader, then you probably think the use of his name honors him and links him to the courage of the Navy SEALS who carried out the operation. … If your point of view is Geronimo as the blood-thirsty savage, then you probably think that Geronimo was a terrorist.”
Geronimo was an Apache leader around the turn of the century who was on of the last of his tribe to surrender to the U.S. He was widely feared during his time, during which he fought both U.S. and Mexican forces.
ABC says the codename was not actually given to bin Laden, but rather was used to represent the actual act of killing the terrorist.
What do you think?
Author’s note: Is it ironic to anyone else that the actual committee discussing this is called the Senate Indian Affairs Committee?
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HADEN0UGH
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:09pmMaybe they should have called it Operation W.
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spirited
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:31pmThis 1′s For Bush!
>Same # of syllables
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kickagrandma
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:49pm@hadENOUGH ~~~ Amen to that suggestion!
Just encountered a young man doing some work in our home who said he much preferred the current administration to the last. I said, “Well, we can stop this conversation right now. We are TEXANS and “W” was / is my hero. Yes, he made mistakes, but that man LOVED AMERICA.This administration, not so much. So, we are done with this part of the conversation.”
He then switched to all the wars even between races in whichever country, etc., and I said, “Hold it right there. The `peace’ movement has always been a lie. JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF said, “I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law And a man’s foes will be those of his own household’….”
By his response to that quote, I think the young man was surprised. I hope he looks it up tonight when he gets home.
Worked like a charm.
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Chicago Ray
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:09pm““inappropriate” and can have a “devastating” impact on kids.”
I can barely believe my eyes with that one. :( Sad they think no one else can ‘think’ for themselves.
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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:07pmGet a life.
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TraceyM
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:07pmThe fact of the matter is: It was the Mexicans who named him Geronimo. This appellation stemmed from a battle in which, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, causing them to utter appeals to Saint Jerome (“Jeronimo!”). The name stuck
His real Native American name was Goyahkla. They should be using that name, not the one the Mexican’s labeled him with.
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UlyssesP
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:15pmYes they should. But that won’t get them their 15 minutes, will it?
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TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:42pmMaybe President Sock Puppet will start using his real name, too.
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Deborah
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:07pmThe real STEREOTYPING going on here is depicting American Indians as thin-skinned. This political correctness is CREATING classes of thin-skinned people, training them to take offense, and cry at the drop of a hat.
Oh . . . can’t use that expression . . . “drop of a hat” . . . it might “offend” some protected class.
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stone2016
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:06pmA bunch of children.
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82dAirborne
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:43pmTake that back!! You are giving children a bad rap.
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let us prey
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:06pmAnd people wonder why there is no respect for government or politicians anymore.
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kickagrandma
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:04pmsomebody send that man back to kenya.
Good grief! When we were little kids we played cowboy and indians. And when we jumped out of trees into our sand piles we yelled, “Geronimo!” I bet the Indians kids did the same thing, only they probably yelled,”Custer! So what??????????????????????
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Tusker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:22pmYea and today kids would be arrested for that kind of horse play. (lol) Can’t even sell lemonade in their front yards anymore. sad, truly sad.
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let us prey
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:04pmNext time try operation caucasion because nobody cares about us anymore. I say this with a tear in my eye.
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Tusker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:02pmYet another example of wasting taxpayer money! I guess things are slow on the hill. Too many thinned skinned folks up there. We need to replace all of them and start over. They are really out of control!
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papapatriot
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:19pmThis is why Thomas Paine warned us by stating “It is the duty of every Patriot to protect his country from its government”. Join Patriot Call To Action at WEBPATRIOTICSERVICES.COM. God Bless America.
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EqualJustice
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:02pmSCR*W THE NAME.. the entire mission was illegal according to our OWN Constitution! WATCH>>>>>> http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4673555/usama-and-us/ <<<<<<<WATCH
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Midgie
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:46pmSince when does the Constitution mean anything? After all, we now living in a country of “Change”. We have a usurper in the White House and the Congress would rather waste it’s time investigating codenames. Mr. Obama is not a “Naturalized Citizen” and is using a fraudulent SS# and has released a fraudulent birth certificate. Silence from the media (including Glenn Beck). I never thought that much of the “birther” (Constitutionalists) issue until Donald Trump brought up the birth certificate. After spending some time doing my “homework” I have come to the conclusion there are enough questions concerning Mr. Obama for hearings and sensible reporting from the media. Silence. Most of the people investigating Mr. Obama’s eligibility has been done by attorneys and the military. They are not a bunch of “wackos” like the media would like you to believe. I was a huge fan of Glenn’s and would race home from work to make sure I wouldn’t miss his TV show. Not so much anymore. Sad times for America.
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nomercy63
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:01pmget over the geronimo issue thing and figure out this huge lie story about Bin Ladan and fix the country
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TheRealElvis
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:01pmI am of Native American heritage. I am not offended. This is a pure waste of valuable time. We don’t fret about such things as some of the other minorities do. We are too proud to whine about the past.
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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:10pmHooray!
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13th Imam
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:25pmElvis
Just read about the Codetalkers. True American Heroes
Anybody But “Whats his Name”? 2012
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Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:31pmNative Americans probably take more government welfare than any other minority group! I’m not saying you do but, your people have to the point they are just about helpless without the government. Pride in your past is good but, pride in your present situation seems to be lacking.
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Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:34pmMy great-great grandparents on my mother’s side of the family were full blood Indian. Granted they were Cherokee and Shawnee, not Apache (I believe that is what Geronimo was), but who cares. Like you say, whenever us older people jumped off anything, it was always GERONIMO..Get a life people.
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TheRealElvis
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:04pmLet me tell you something Gonzo. There were more Native Americans slaughtered than Jews in the Holocaust. The Jews got their own country and far more money than us “red skins”. And if you check out the other minorities, you will find a lot more money is spent on welfare for them than the subsidies that us “red skins” ever got. You watch television too much. The real facts do not ever get out unless there is a vote to be had or a pocket to be lined with greenbacks. As my forfathers used to say, “you give me pain between my ears”.
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Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:01pmThe real Geronimo was a terrorist. By every definition of terrorism we use today, he was a terrorist.
How’s that for P.C.?
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let us prey
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:09pmTrue
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Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:23pmHe led raids against both Mexican and American white settlers killing women and children indiscriminately. Sounds like Bin Laden to me. If you say he was defending his homeland against white invaders, Bin Laden would have agreed with you.
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busdriverrock
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:46pmboth mexican and american government also killed native american women and children. read your history. GERONIMO and other native warriors are the original homeland security.
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mrclean
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 3:11pm@busdriver
Right on
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cntrlfrk
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:00pmGeronimo wasn’t even his real name.
That’s what the Mexicans called him.
His real name was Goyathlay.
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13th Imam
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:23pmDid he start Goya Foods???
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Untameable-kate
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:58pmThen people better stop yelling it when they parachute out of a plane.
Nothing else going on in the country to worry about???
BO is racist towards Native Americans.
I was born here, as were my parents, that makes me a native American, BO is keepin’ me down!
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Showtime
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:48pmQuestion:
Can you vote?
If you live on a reservation, you aren’t an American citizen, are you?
I don’t know anyone who lives on a reservation, so I can’t ask anyone else.
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Code Name Geronimo
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:19pmThis is a gross insult to the people of this country.
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Contrarian51
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:58pmOne more case of a special interest group playing the victim card and creating a needless sideshow when there are more real issues to resolve than there is time address them. Everyone needs to get over themselves.
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NickDeringer
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:57pmHow stupid does it get? Please tell me. How stupid?
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spirited
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:25pm“Life is like a box of chocolates”
>”Stupid is …”
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NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:32pmYou can’t fix stupid!!!!!
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rds1945
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:56pmNative American Hero???
Get a life.
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BurntHills
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:56pmwho who who today under 50 years old in America (outside of some kids on some government povertystricken Indian Reservation) has any clue who GERONIMO was, seriously, folks. we hear Geronimo! and we think fun days as a bunch of kids and jumping off things.
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TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:55pmUgh. Heap big stupid.
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BetterDays
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:55pmWell they were going to use A.S.S..H.O.L.E., but Obama kind of likes his name.
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Showtime
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:39pmGuess I’d better read the Daily Reflections for today.
ROFLMAO! ~
“ENTIRELY HONEST”
“We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world.” (A.A., p. 73-74)
“Honesty, like all virtues, is to be shared. It began after I shared ‘…my whole life’s story with someone….’ in order to find my place in the Fellowship. Later I shared my life in order to help the newcomer find his place with us. This sharing helps me to learn honest in all my dealings and to know that God’s plan for me comes true through honest openness and willingness.”
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BrownWaterVet
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:04pmVery good Betterdays, Very good!
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82dAirborne
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:23pm@Show
Do you have anything about slapping the crap out of stupid people?
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BetterDays
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:27pm@Showtime
Yea, now on to step nine.
Ok my language was very strong, if any of my fellow Blaze posters are offended I promise to tone it down a SLIGHT bit the next time, my apologies. As for you Barack Obama if the name fits wear it!
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.
Smile.
Having a good day Dear Showtime?
Me I’m bouncing in and out, getting the greenhouses set up to plant the seedlings I started a month ago inside, GOD be praised.
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BetterDays
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:38pm@82nd
And just whom do you want to slap? Might I volunteer, please sir may I have another?
Hope your having a good day J.
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82dAirborne
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:55pm@BetterDays
Politicians for the most part! You probably haven’t noticed but from time to time I become a wee bit frustrated with stupid people. Not necessarily people who I disagree with – just truly STUPID!
Just a little dope slap to the back of the head to get their attention.
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BetterDays
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:50pm@82nd
Just funnin ya old man just funnin.
Yea, I feel your angst, Cantwells my rep, I’m going to call her office and give her an earful.
Like she’ll care.
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BurntHills
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:54pmno way will the psychotic democrats stop America from using GERONIMO in what we consider ‘heroic’ acts ……… like being an innocent 9 yrs old and yelling it jumping off the roof with our Superman towel tied to our necks.
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Zorro6821
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:46pmAll I can say is that we are screwed!!! These are the folks that run our country. Repubs and Democrats, no difference between the two.
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Molly Caudle
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 2:47pmPersonally I think Pale-Face would have been a much better name for the mission.
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Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:53pmMy big old ****. PC will kill us all. Guys..ahh, can we look at the debt clock today and see what you have done? Do you speak Chinese yet? Best learn it or start paying down the debt jack asses….
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PrfctlyFrank
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:15pmSeriously?? The constituency of whatever senatorial idiots are involved in this need to consider malfeasance charges.. Their Senators are not representing them in a rational way..
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Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:28pmI think they took the batteries out of the debt clock so they wouldn’t have to look at it climbing higher and higher. That way they can just ignore it and start spending again.
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texanpatriot
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:40pmWon’t it be great when the Senate is in better hands? Come on 2012….
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orkydorky
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:18pmAny of these senator’s wasting our time and money on this BS needs to be fired immediately! The country is burning down and they’re fiddling!
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HADEN0UGH
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:52pmWow. Just wow.
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ozchambers
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:55pmDo something useful Senators. How about figuring out how to stop spending our future?
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SigTau18
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:00pmYou have got to be freaking kidding me…. Is this what it comes to? A code name? Someone slap me….I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Obama Bin Lying
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:01pmFor real?
The country is on the verge of collapse, and this is what they do?>
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Gas137
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:02pmWe have a gridlock of reason in the US.
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expatinontariocanada
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:07pmEveryone on that committee should be made to say that word as we force them off the cliff of stupidity. It’s too crowded with idiots now…
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Cptnjarhead
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:07pmYou can kill an unarmed person, but you cannot use the code name “Geronimo”?
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auntbea
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:07pmSorry guys, but this is insensitive. This goofy White House lacks knowledge about American history and a lot of other things that they should know.
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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:09pmSurely they jest!
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chiefparker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:11pm“This could have a devastating impact on kids” Nowhere near the impact of devastation Obamacare WILL have on our kids. Oh yes, the children will run and hide under their beds when they hear this. What a fool.
He’s got no kids.
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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:11pmHow much extra do they get paid for all their comittees and so-called investigations?
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rodamaa
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:12pmGive me a break!
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82dAirborne
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:13pmGeronimo has been used in the military for a very long time! When exiting an aircraft while in flight, leading a charge against the enemy etc.
It is a battle cry and shows respect for a fierce and talented warrior. There is NO DISRESPECT involved.
The PC crap is going to destroy us!!!
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CaptGregg
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:15pmI’m so glad our elected representatives have found something so important to address.
“Geronimo” was the name given to Goyahkla by the Mexicans who hated and feared him even more than did the Americans. It was not used by his followers.
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ConsiderThis
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:15pmDoesn’t this just make you wanna pack up and go home?
Just wait until the word ‘debt’ offends someone – I guess that will be the end of that problem.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:17pmJust name them after useless Senators, Czars, and cabinet members. Problem solved, money saved.
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chiefparker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:17pmAnd one more thing. Is this fool even aware that the US Gov assassinated Geronimo?
What kind of impact would that knowledge have on our kids?
chfields62
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:17pmStupidity reigns supreme……………
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13th Imam
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:20pmHow about??
Operation Barry Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro ,Fearless Leader, Terrorist Crusher, The One, Magnificent, Supremeo,
Did I forget Any?
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vivrobbins
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:21pmOMG, someone needs to get a life.
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USAMEDIC3008
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:23pmI know who Obama is.
I also Know who Usama is.
Now just who the H*## is this Osama ???
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D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:25pmI mean really, this is what they look at…the freaking CODENAME… I mean what should we have called him… E.K.I.A. was the only important thing we called him anyway.
http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com
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Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:27pmI’m not sure my aging heart can take all this political correctness. If that is all the committees in our government have to do, then we need to get new ones.
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Showtime
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:28pmDon’t paratroopers shout “Geronimo” when they jump from a perfectly good airplane?
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DeHo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:28pmThe fire-water and government dependence has no effect on self-esteem? For me Geronimo is a battle cry, “Charge!” “Geronimo!” “Attack!”
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mill
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:29pmstupid stupid stupid…honestly, we have more pressing things to have a “hearing” over..
STUPID
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Showtime
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:31pm@GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:11pm
How much extra do they get paid for all their comittees and so-called investigations?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A lot!
(Wonder what they would have used had they captured him? Oh, that’s right — OBL was killed in 2007. Can’t have live footage of him under arrest!)
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TSUNAMI-22
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:32pmMore expected nonsense. So far, this administration is battin’ 1000.
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Robert-CA
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:34pmThank you Blaze for removing my post .
So how am I suppose to write the word : muslim ?
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bassist237
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:34pmI suppose they should have just called him “Jeffrey”.
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dwa0816
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:36pmThis explains why our debt is so high and nothing is done about it, complete incompetence. I wonder which senator heard the code name and instead of being happty we killed OBL, he/she said “Geronemo” that is completely innappropriate. What a joke these senators are.
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RedRuffensore
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:40pmGet a life!
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PavZilla
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:41pm@Consider (Doesn’t this just make you wanna pack up and go home?)
Crumbs, that’s what saddens me the most. I thought this was my home. I keep clicking my heels but I swear, this just doesn’t seem like home and it doesn’t feel like I’ll ever get back there. I think the admin is orchestrating this strange feeling of being lost.
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USAF SFS
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:43pmYou’re kidding…..Right??? Grow up people!
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101
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:43pmO’Boy somebody is going to get in trouble BS… waste of taxpayers’ money
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hillbillyinny
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:49pmPolitical correctness is going to ruin us!
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tower7femacamp
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:57pmthat is a reference to Skull and Bones…
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HillBillySam1
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:59pmPerhaps the politically correct codename would have been “Operation *********” since Progressives hate Bin Laden almost as much as they hate the Tea Party……there is absolutely no problem with insulting anyone who is a Conservative or a Christian according to our politically correct overlords…….as Charlie Sheen would profoundly say: “Winning…..Duh!!”……
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AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:59pmWhat about the Apache helicopter, etc? What a bunch of Sitting Bull.
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82dAirborne
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:01pmUnited States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs:
Democrats –
Daniel Akaka, Chairman (HI)
Daniel Inouye, Member (HI)
Kent Conrad, Member (ND)
Tim Johnson, Member (SD)
Maria Cantwell, Member (WA)
Jon Tester, Member (MT)
Tom Udall, Member (NM)
Al Franken, Member (MN)
Republicans –
John Barrasso, Vice Chairman (WY)
John McCain, Member (AZ)
Lisa Murkowski, Member (AK)
John Hoeven, Member (ND)
Michael Crapo, Member (ID)
Mike Johanns, Member (NE)
Do any of these brain surgeons represent you? Give them a call!
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GayDem4Beck
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:02pmI am so sick and tire of Political Correctness
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FREDINOHIO
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:13pmDoes anyone in congress have any brains at all?! Hey – Congress!! Do you think there might be more important things to tackle than a code name?!? Are we the people actually paying you to diddle away your time on something as idiotic as this?!?
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Down2TheC
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:16pm$14.3 Trillion you buttheads. You have bigger fish to fry.
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jdog777
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:18pmSure… honor the sensitivities of Al Qaeda by not releasing the picture and ignore the sensitivities of the American Indian.
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old white guy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:21pmand another case of who gives a rats ass.
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sharpshooter58
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:23pmDoesn’t our senate more important things to do?
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Suchy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:25pmDead injun
CatB
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:36pmGive me a break .. how about doing something constructive .. LIKE RESIGN!
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Zorro6821
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:39pmDoes the senate have more pressing issues than This Insanity. Our Senators “Elite Welfare Recipients” only tackle non issues to make it look like they are earning their taxpayer funded paychecks. This reveals the level of maturity that permeates out senate and congress. As I always said, being an elected official is the best gig in the country. The perks are out of this world!!!!
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Jaycen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:43pmI can only imagine the hurt feelings my 9 year old would have if we had an operation labelled “Codename: Hoover”
White children everywhere would have their self-esteem irevocably damaged.
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brickmoon
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:48pmI demand that this be investigated by the Bureau of Cowboy Affairs!
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Mikehgdn
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:51pmOk I am a fat old white guy, next time yell “the fat honky is down” I will be good with it as long as they are killing our enemies…………..
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rgranger
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:52pmGod! I thought that no one was ever going to look into this…/sarc
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jueta
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:54pmOr lets have a Pow Wow!
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My Two Cents
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:14pmMabye a reference to Charlie Sheen would have been more appropriate.
Boom! Winning!
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ds7
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:34pmi read this from another site…
It was the Mexicans who named him Geronimo. This appellation stemmed from a battle in which, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, causing them to utter appeals to Saint Jerome (“Jeronimo!”). The name stuck.
Kind of stupid to be offended when it is not even his real name.
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Bobert
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:49pmAnd if they had said “Hee-Hah . . . Chester’s Dead” – all of the Chester’s of the world would be greatly offended and demand a Senate hearing as well. We live in loonyville. Can you even imagine what people will be saying 100 years from now when the look back at this moment in time. Unreal.
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Sheepdog911
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:49pmHey, Isn’t it inaapropriate for Loretta Tuell, the committee’s chief counsel to use the title “Chief” associated with a lawyer (counsel). Think of all the traumatized little kiddies that will cause.
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dnear456
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:50pmChinook,Apache, Black Hawk, Huey(Iroquois), Kiowa Worrior,& Comanche all US Military Helicopters. A FOB Geronimo in Afghanistan. O’ yea and a FOB Apache too. ( SMOKE SCREENS from CONGRESS)
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waggie
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:04pmWhat a waste of tax payer dollars. What else are they debating that should be left alone?
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donh2
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:13pmChoosing the name Geronimo for the OBL mission is a good indication the severed head of Osama now resides inside a glass display case within the inner sanctum of the Skull and Bones temple at Yale.
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TexasCommonSense
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:21pmPeople are so whiny these days. Get over it.
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ishka4me
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:57pmyou have got to be kidding me. while they are at it, investigate the fighting irish thing at notre damme
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naed5048
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:16pmget a real life……Is this what is on their minds and order of busseness? OH they do instill what is their priorities
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dagart
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:31pmthat summed it pretty good
its not like they have something important to do or anything
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VegasGuy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:54pmI thought Geronimo was a bad choice. I don’t feel it is so egregious that it merits an investigation, but nevertheless the choice was bound to cause backlash from Native Americans. They have a legitimate gripe.
Personally, I feel Mole would have been a better choice as in “wack-a-mole.”
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avenger
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:01pmyikes…more useful idiots…
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Finger Follie
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:11pmReally??? Congress has nothing better to do with their/our time?
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sooner12
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:28pmPeople need to get a life and stop wasting our time.
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sonseeker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:04pmIf you really want to honor native Americans , abolish the BIA and reservations.
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restorehope
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:05pmAnother waste of time and tax payers’ dollars. Also another distraction to make everyone forget about the debt ceiling crisis.
When I was a child, we would yell Geronimo when we were jumping off the high dive at a pool. It was not meant as a slur, but instead as an act of fearlessness. Thus it was more of a compliment to the chief’s braveness. Enough of this political incorrectness baloney. It’s very easy to twist any statement around just to get attention and sympathy. Now that is cowardly.
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My.vote.not.4.sale
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:15pmPBS must have said no way to using snuffleupagus
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TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:33pmAs a half cherokee, I am sick of these sons of bitches using my ancestory to further their political power.
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Okie from Muskogee
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:47pmOh great, folks round here will use this all they can….I have Native in me as most do not realizing it, including Apache and Commanche, and find it more honorable they use these names as it keeps the history alive in a way….
First Apache means enemy and was not a tribe….The Government gave the name Apache because they heard the Natives speak this word….
Second, “Indian” Affairs, really, can’t we spend our time on important issues?
Third, I’m not sure many are aware of this but here in OK, Natives actually have their own Nation, Government, and now Casinos….In running adds in the local papers for employment it says: “The Cherokee Nation will give preference to Native applicants over non-native applicants!” So pretty much they disrciminate based on your race and it is ok!
Fourth, A Native around here is someone with 1/100000000000 Native in them and get tax breaks in auto Tags, taxes, free food, free school supplies, etc thru monies the US government gives the Nation….You can be a snow white red headed person whos great great grand pappy signed the “Indian” role and the Government pays your way!
PATHETIC!!!!
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Okie from Muskogee
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:00pmI will say there is some irony in this:
Geronimo was a leader like Cochise of the Natives in response to US settlers, thru their eyes, occupying their lands…..
Osama was a leader of Muslims in response to US settlers occupying their lands…..
Ironic isn’t it……
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No1YaKnow
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:30pmCome on people! (for those you who would actually agree with this nonsense) Are you ready to pull out a roll of duct tape for your own mouth if you support this? Geez.
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DDD3D
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:14amHow can we look ourselves in the mirror when we keep sending the village idiots to DC?
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Wayner
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:14amRoger that!!!! This is Charley 1 calling Able Baker
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newrepublic7
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:30amAre you serious? The indians said they were mad also. Really?? Geronimo evaded the U.S. Army for years and so did Osama bin Laden ! I get it. It makes sense.
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HEARDENOUGHCRAP
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:37am“Native Americans” will call Geronimo a freedom fighter. I guess it depends on which side of the tomahawk you’re on. Geronimo was a killer just like bin Laden. There’s no reason why the two can’t be interchangable. Congress will do ANYTHING rather than tackle the REAL issues.
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revel222
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:49amJust ridiculous. Can we get back to the issues please.
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zman173rd
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:50amTell ya’ll a story; When I was a kid my mom told me about a boyfriend she had during WWII. He was a paratrooper. He died in the war, but I rememeber one thing that stuck with me. She said he sent her a letter telling her that, when he made his first jump, he yelled JERONIMO!!! at the top of his lungs. It made her proud and she had a tear when she told me. Well guess what? When I made my first jump I yelled JERONIMO!!! and told her so! I’ll bet she got a tear in her eye again. So 25 years later she got to hear it again! ! .
My mothers’s grandmother was Apache. I’m part Apache and proud of it. God Bless AMERICA and the rest of you crybabies who all those hurt feelings,… bugger off!
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TRUTHSEEKINGAL
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:29amThis is an assault on “cowboy & Indian” poetry Water board them!
Then go to your local saloon and order a “usama” :two shots and a splash of water
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EP46
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:34amGeronimo ….. It is of Italian and Greek origin, and the meaning of Geronimo is “sacred name”. Lets apologize to the Italians and Greeks !!!
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the_zazzy
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:44amThe country and world are collapsing, and these idiots can’t find anything better to do with their time and our money! Revolution??? Geronimo!!!!
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Red Bubba
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:52amNo group has received more government “assistance” that native americans, and look at all it has accomplished – dependancy and dispair.
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Molly Caudle
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 2:43pmIs this a joke or is this for real because, that is the stupidest gosh darn thing I have ever heard. That is even dumber than the poor idiot congressman who was concerned that Guam might tip over. How do people this stupid get into office???
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mrclean
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 3:06pmCongress!! How about meeting to do something to bring down the cost of gas?????
Losers, nothing but losers in the House and Senate who will be out on their @sses come 2012
A promise, not a threat
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Susan Harkins
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 3:57pmThere needs to be a senate hearing on the misappropriation of taxpayer funds that went to a senate hearing to examine the ‘Inappropriate’ use of OBL mission codename ‘Geronimo’.
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VanGrungy
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 4:22pmGeronimo was a terrorist…
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Code Name Geronimo
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:05pmHey, I just thought of a GREAT PLACE to cut wasteful spending: Abolish the Senate Indian Affairs Committee ! ! ! ! ! ! How many more like that do we have???
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Kenneth
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:17pmFind out if this group gets any government money. If they do, then cut them off. Tell them, if they want to waste evrybody’s resources they can, but not at taxpayers expense.
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Mee the People
Posted on May 6, 2011 at 1:53amwe will have 1000s of words we cant say like niger etc.
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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 6, 2011 at 9:36amI’m normally very against PC, but I don’t consider this as PC because Geronimo has descendants alive today who are affected emotionally by this, as well as the Apache people themselves. This was personal to them and I was personally shocked when I heard that they had used his name in this way.
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GRANNYMOO
Posted on May 6, 2011 at 8:36pmI’ll bet Geronimo is laughin his A$$ off! He was the greatest gorilla fighter ever and kept the feds runnin around for years! Yeah he’s laughin at these stupido libs tryin to start another fuss to take our minds off the real mess in washington!! Bless his people ( apaches ) they are still the greatest americans Americans aith all their brothers, and i’ll never forget my dad’s stories about the Code Talkers!! Of course history will prolly tell it different, but the tribes of America are still standing tall with pride born in them HOOYAA!!
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