Obama man he is a leader we should be proud
Hopefully the Plank.
Said it before and I’ll say it again, 3 clear head shots on terrorists holding an American hostage = Priceless!
Thank God for our Navy and our Seals!
Easter Seals
Sharp shooting from a boat is all that more amazing....
I’m really not familiar with how this works. Does this mean to say that our military must wait for the President to tell them it’s ok to take action?
The fourth pirate needs to be hung from the neck until he’s dead.
Easter Seals save our captain!
WTG USN and all aboard the Bainbridge!
Freegards,
Lex
The CPT was in danger from the day they took him hostage,these are muslim terrorist we are talking about here they could care less, if they didn’t get the money they would have send the Captain Phillips head home in a box to show they mean business..i wonder how much persuasion the nit wit needed to give the order to attack the pirates..The Navy should have blown ever pirate ship into kingdom come while they were at it..Now they will bring another terrorist to America for Obama to pardon and live among us..Sorry folks I don’t see where the Muslim was a hero here..
Seems to me they should have shot when the pirates were least able to retaliate by killing the hostage.
Thank you, Obama, for letting real men do men’s work.
Will Obuma be labeled a murderer...and possibly a child killer? If Bush had “authorized” this...there would have been major protests in European cities against American intervention in “Somalian High Seas Commerce”.
“standing orders allowing the Captain of the Bainbridge to take action if he saw that Captain Phillips’ life was in imminent danger. “
“It seems clear that the Obama administration deserves some credit for allowing the Bainbridge captain to take action if Capt. Phillips’ life was in danger. It would have been hard to justify a ban on such action. “
If those were the rules of engagement God help our sailors .
This is setting them up for another USS Cole incident.
To me this rule looks like having to fight with your hands tied behind your back. Our sailors were fired upon yesterday I can’t imagine the amount of restraint they had to have not to fire back . Truly this is a testament to how well they are trained .
God bless our troops
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/04/how-the-rescue-happened.html
HOW THE RESCUE HAPPENED
POSTED BY UNCLE JIMBO
I just finished listening to the press conference w/ ADM Gortney about the rescue of Captain Phillips. At the time it happened the USS Bainbridge was towing the lifeboat to calmer waters as the sea state was deteriorating. One of the pirates was on board the Bainbridge as the talks about obtaining Phillip’s release continued. The lifeboat was approx. 25 m behind the Bainbridge when snipers on the fantail observed one of the pirates in the pilot house of the lifeboat pointing an AK-47 at the back of a tied up Phillips and the other two pirates on board were visible (at least shoulders and heads). The standing authority gave them clearance to engage the pirates if the life of the captain was in imminent danger. The on scene commander deemed this to be true and gave the order to fire. All three bad guys were taken out and then a rigid inflatable boat went to the lifeboat to retrieve Phillips. Iti is unknown at this point whether the shooters were SEALs or Marine Scout Snipers as both would have been available. This was not a rescue attempt ordered by National Command Authority i.e. the President. It was a reaction by the on scene commander under standard authority to safeguard the life of a hostage.
The AP is reporting that President Obama gave the order to use military force to rescue the hostage, that is misleading.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Administration officials say President Barack Obama approved the military operation that rescued a U.S. captain held hostage by Somali pirates.
The officials say Obama ordered the Defense Department to use military resources to rescue Richard Phillips from a lifeboat off the Somali coast.
He did affirm the military’s authorization to use force if the captain’s life was in danger, but they already would have had that authorization as part of their standard rules of engagement. If there are innocents about to be slaughtered the same reasoning that authorizes self defense also covers an imminent execution unless the ROE specifically forbid it.
The AP is making it sound like there was an active rescue ordered by the President. It was not, there was an imminent threat and the local commander gave the order to fire.
Good on Obama for ensuring their authorization was clear, but let’s also be clear that he did not authorize or order an active rescue attempt.
April 12, 2009
Bleep! - Why didn't he allow them to act on the first day? - Over-all, this operation stank badly!
Somebody give BO a cowboy hat. WE'RE ALL "COWBOYS" NOW!!! P!$$ on the Euro-Peons and their U.N.
This is the first time since November 4th, 2008 that I've been proud to be an American!
GO NAVY!
All that’s left now is for Obama to apologize to the pirates for the unnecessary violence and promise the senate will hold hearings to thoroughly investigate the military. /s