Sony has applied for the rights to use the Iraq war's catchphrase "Shock and Awe" probably for its upcoming video games. I wonder if anyone did the same for "the mother of all battles" popularized by Saddam Hussein in the last Gulf war in 1991.

The language used in war ranges from the understated to the most audacious exaggeration (as demonstrated by the Iraqi Information Minister). Rumfelds today gave an example of the former by referring to the anarchy that is enveloping Baghdad now as just a transitional a period of "untidiness".