ClydeR
05-08-2011, 04:17 PM
As President Barack Obama and his team sat on tenterhooks in the Situation Room, the CIA director Leon Panetta broke the silence with the memorable words: "We have a visual on Geronimo."
By Nick Allen
The code name Geronimo had apparently been chosen for bin Laden because, like the Native American chief, he had managed to evade capture for years and was apparently able to vanish into thin air.
In Geronimo's case his ability to stay on the run gave rise to legends that he was able to walk without leaving any tracks, and that he could survive being shot.
More than a century before bin Laden escaped from the caves of Tora Bora, Geronimo was said to have pulled off a similar evasion in New Mexico.
More... (http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2011/05/why-us-chose-geronimo-codename.html)
Native Americans are awfully upset that Bin Ladin was code named Geronimo. The question for you is was it wrong to give Bin Ladin that code name.
I found a collection of statements from Native American leaders. The funniest one is..
“Who knows what they were thinking. Perhaps the military realized the irony of possibly sending in Apache gunships to take out ‘Geronimo.’ Or perhaps George W. Bush amused himself with the thought that finding bin Laden would be just as difficult as retrieving Geronimo’s remains from the Skull and Bones compound at his alma mater, Yale. At any rate, it shows that America still has a long way to go in order to understand us as people, not just labels easily affixed to malt liquor, mascots, and terrorists.”
More... (http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/05/indian-country-responds-to-geronimo-bin-laden-connection/)
By Nick Allen
The code name Geronimo had apparently been chosen for bin Laden because, like the Native American chief, he had managed to evade capture for years and was apparently able to vanish into thin air.
In Geronimo's case his ability to stay on the run gave rise to legends that he was able to walk without leaving any tracks, and that he could survive being shot.
More than a century before bin Laden escaped from the caves of Tora Bora, Geronimo was said to have pulled off a similar evasion in New Mexico.
More... (http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2011/05/why-us-chose-geronimo-codename.html)
Native Americans are awfully upset that Bin Ladin was code named Geronimo. The question for you is was it wrong to give Bin Ladin that code name.
I found a collection of statements from Native American leaders. The funniest one is..
“Who knows what they were thinking. Perhaps the military realized the irony of possibly sending in Apache gunships to take out ‘Geronimo.’ Or perhaps George W. Bush amused himself with the thought that finding bin Laden would be just as difficult as retrieving Geronimo’s remains from the Skull and Bones compound at his alma mater, Yale. At any rate, it shows that America still has a long way to go in order to understand us as people, not just labels easily affixed to malt liquor, mascots, and terrorists.”
More... (http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/05/indian-country-responds-to-geronimo-bin-laden-connection/)