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Onondaga Nation leaders blast 'Geronimo' codename for Bin Laden
Syracuse NY: The Post-Standard ^ | Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 9:32 PM | Charles McChesney /

Posted on 05/03/2011 8:31:07 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Leaders of the Onondaga Nation blasted as “reprehensible” the assigning of the world’s most wanted terrorist “Geronimo” as a codename.

Bin Laden was killed during an attack on his compound in Pakistan Sunday. “We’ve ID’d Geronimo,” U.S. forces reported by radio to the White House. Later, word came that “Geronimo” was dead.

“Think of the outcry if they had used any other ethnic group’s hero,” the Onondaga Council of Chiefs said in a release Tuesday. “Geronimo bravely and heroically defended his homeland and his people, eventually surrendering and living out the rest of his days peacefully, if in captivity,” the chiefs noted.

“Geronimo is arguably the most recognized Native American name in the world,” the chiefs said, “and this comparison only serves to perpetuate negative stereotypes about our people.”

Geronimo was an Apache leader who fought Mexican and U.S. forces before surrendering to U.S. authorities in 1886. He died in 1909.

(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: apache; binladen; geronimo; insensitive; nativeamerican; obama; obl; osama; stfu
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
My first thought when I read the name Geronimo, was that somebody was a Conspiracy Theory movie fan....
41 posted on 05/03/2011 9:28:26 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: dayglored

Thanks. I would’ve preferred Operation Hyena. My favorite Nat’l Geographic show was call Lions & Hyeana’s: Eternal Enemies. We being the Lions. Or more appropriately our Armed Forces and intelligience agencies.


42 posted on 05/03/2011 9:28:26 PM PDT by TwoSwords (The Lord is a man of war, Exodus 15:3)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
My first thought when I read the name Geronimo, was that somebody was a Conspiracy Theory movie fan.... Oh and I forgot to add as more picture evidence gets revealed I will be looking for some red and white smoke stacks as background images.
43 posted on 05/03/2011 9:30:12 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Next time the target will be named Whitey or Soccer Mom. Now, is everyone happy?


44 posted on 05/03/2011 9:30:30 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Perhaps they would have preferred “Joseph Brant”?


45 posted on 05/03/2011 9:30:56 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: P-Marlowe

Consider this post the obligatory Skull and Bones reference.

Bushs’ fault.


46 posted on 05/03/2011 9:31:50 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: dayglored
Sorry, in the awareness of virtually every American alive at the moment, "Geronimo" in this operation was the codename for Bin Laden.

Then every American are oversensitive easily-offended wimps, prone to organising to complain about every dam word.


47 posted on 05/03/2011 9:32:12 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: P-Marlowe

Thanks for clarity and the history lesson.


48 posted on 05/03/2011 9:32:24 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...impeach Obama.)
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To: Grunthor

The Onondaga aren’t Lakota. They’re Iroquois.


49 posted on 05/03/2011 9:33:23 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: GOYAKLA; All

History lesson? Surrender/or?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo


50 posted on 05/03/2011 9:33:29 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: GOYAKLA; All

History lesson? Surrender/or?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo


51 posted on 05/03/2011 9:33:59 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: P-Marlowe

It happens to every culture that has been subsidised by the tax dollars of hard working people other than themselves.

Started with the Indians. Really took off after WW II.

Continues to worsen to this day.


52 posted on 05/03/2011 9:34:53 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Make your choice ! There are NO civilians.)
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To: TwoSwords

Geronimo may be admirable for his refusal to quit. But tell that to ALL the non-hostile Apaches who got sent to Florida because of him, and still [largely] have not returned to their homeland.


53 posted on 05/03/2011 9:35:34 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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well I guess they could have said “coming...ready or not”


54 posted on 05/03/2011 9:43:26 PM PDT by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: GOYAKLA
My 1/16th Choctaw lineage is offended by your name.

But the Okie and Mexican in me are “ok” with it.

55 posted on 05/03/2011 9:44:14 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Make your choice ! There are NO civilians.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
The sounds that Indians made while speaking are different from English. "Geronimo" probably sounds nothing like that Chiefs real name. I went and garnered this off wiki: Geronimo (Chiricahua: Goyaałé, "one who yawns"; often spelled Goyathlay or Goyahkla[2] in English.
56 posted on 05/03/2011 9:46:12 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Grunthor

So why do they call them Sioux Chefs? ;^)


57 posted on 05/03/2011 9:46:20 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
They should have used something like Libby. So what if a bunch of fruits get mad?


58 posted on 05/03/2011 9:51:24 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Delta 21

My line is 1/x Cherokee and many others but I call myself American.
We all can get offended at something but I prefer Bourbon over arguing. ;^}
Realizing that Geronimo accepted Christ in his later life I would like to think, in a strange way, the “Code Name” was to mean the Christians won!!!!
Have great life! Goyakla/ Geronimo


59 posted on 05/03/2011 9:53:08 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Gernomino was an Apache, so I don’t see why it’s their business.


60 posted on 05/03/2011 9:53:28 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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