[lbo-talk] Das Eisenhammer

[jeffrey fisher]

well, the first thing that struck me about it was the presence of  
saddam in the code name, saddam being the word for "hammer". thinking  
about it now, maybe "iron" here isn't an adjective, but an imperative  
verb: "Iron (the) Hammer!"

extra starch, please.

;-)

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 01:06 PM, Brad Mayer wrote:


> More on the travails of irony and satire in our times:
>
> U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' Code Name 1st Used by Nazis:
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=2&u=/nm/ 
> 20031118/us_nm/iraq_hammer_dc
>
> Well, it goes well with the hinomaru imperial battle flag, unfurled  
> once
> again on the global stage.
>
> It is because there _is_ a real wiff of fascism in the air today that  
> we
> can't permit this fact to be used to herd leftists back toward the
> Democrats.
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>