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Operation after a yes album? >> they are calling it operation odyssey dawn. i believe it is the first military operation named for a stripper. >> odyssey dawn? that's not a military operation! that's a carnival cruise ship! >> last night on this program, i asked you to come up with a better name than operation odyssey dawn. the rules of naming this operation as laid down by the pentagon require that the first word begin with o, the second word must start with a through f. among the best of more than 600 suggestions we received, operation obama biden or obama clinton from joan on twitter. on ou...

They are calling it odyssey dawn. >> we're at war? again? i don't want to be a pain in the ass, but don't we already have two wars? you know, wars aren't kids. you don't have to pay attention to the youngest one because the older two will take care of it. by the way, odyssey dawn? you really name a combat operation after a yes album? >> let's look at the morning papers. we start with "the new york times." the conflict in libya is causing rift between russia's two leaders. putin harshly criticized the strikes. he says it reminds him of a medieval call for crew said. later, he rejected putin's

>> odyssey dawn? you really name a combat operation after a yes album? >> reporter: no, there's not a yes album called odyssey dawn. it's a joke. >> odyssey dawn. i believe it's the first military operation named for a stripper. >> reporter: you probably never met a stripper named desert storm. humanitarian missions tend to have inspiring names like operation restore hope or provide comfort. so what's with odyssey dawn? >> it was absolutely random. >> reporter: u.s. africa command says they were given three sets of words beginning with certain letters to choose from. odyssey dawn does not mean...

Benghazi, pull back from the other cities they hold? you have a number of warships in the region in the mediterranean, but that's pretty significant firepower. for them to fire their missiles into libyan cities to try and affect libyan forces and avoid civilians is very problematic. you have what the french of course this morning beginning to fly their war planes. how do you, however, organize and control such a massive air operation and set a strategy that again will really achieve that objective as making gadhafi pull his forces out of the city? the u.s., as everyone has pointed out, says it...

I was a supporter of the iraq war. okay? and i don't blame you for weapons of mass destruction, i think that the data we had anybody could have made that mistake. "new york times" had it on the front page they had weapons of mass destruction. but the way the war was waged, come on. that was a big screw up. we didn't have enough troops there. we didn't -- weunder estimated the problems there. didn't we? >> i think you are wrong and i will tell you why. >> bill: all right. >> it was a revolving situation. again franks had a plan where we could have put 450,000 troops in iraq. he had off ramps wh...