We’ve all heard (and complained) about the US military code name for the Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/i>.<\/p>\n
So what’s the British <\/i>code name?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Operation Telic<\/a>. I wasn’t sure what it meant, either, until I looked it up<\/a>. Cool. And much classier than the US name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve all heard (and complained) about the US military code name for the Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom. 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