Best comment yet on this, from a reader: “As you have probably guessed,

this clunky name was not the Pentagon’s first choice for the Iraqi war. It

is my understanding that the DOD brass wanted to call it ‘Operation Zionist

Infidel Crusader,’ but for some reason the State Department objected.

Meanwhile, Tom Daschle wanted to call it ‘Operation Failed Diplomacy,’ but

the administration was cool to that suggestion. Karl Rove, I am told,

pushed hard for ‘Operation Aren’t You Glad Gore Isn’t President,’ but at the

last minute, saner heads prevailed.” I believe that in Pyongyang they are

calling it “Operation Better Get that Uranium Processed PDQ”….