Posted on 04/20/2009 6:40:23 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
The opportunity to politicize the rescue of Captain Phillips from Somali pirates was one Barack Obama could not resist.
Obama’s handlers played the crisis for every ounce of P.R. they could generate. We heard a “quietly confident Obama” twice “gave the order to shoot if necessary.” Yet when Phillips first jumped from the lifeboat he was being held in, nothing happened. No one saved him, and the pirates merely scooped him up and returned him to their “ship.” Our Navy Seals were on the scene ready to act, yet at first they did nothing.
Why the Seal commander didn’t act is THE important question of the whole affair.
Was it because the Commander- in -Chief was playing the “Lawyer- in- Chief?”
The truth seems to be Obama dithered and consulted lawyers before he acted so “decisively” and “signed off.”
Was the Seals hesitation caused by Obama’s confusing “signing off” on the operation?”
Obama’s nomination of Harold Koh as State Department Legal Advisor provides an answer. Koh firmly supports the International Criminal Court. This suggests Obama intends to dump the American Service Members’ Protection Act and put our war fighters under the control of leftist lawyers eager to please the anti American ICC.
If Obama had the wellbeing and safety of our military in mind he would not have “signed off” or “not signed off” on this operation. His hands on involvement in a military operation, opens the door to lawyers controlling combat operations.
When lawyers not commanders run combat operations America is in trouble.
This will likely lead to arrests of war fighters for “not having proper authorization” after having killed enemy combatants.
As sure as night follows day Obama has put our military in danger of indictment, prosecution and imprisonment by a kangaroo court of European American haters.
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“If”. That is the word by which Obama throws the SEALS under the bus.
when the surviving Somali pirate is tried in court, no doubt his US-funded lawyer will subpoena the crew of the Bainbridge and the SEAL team as defense witnesses
Might as well have a tuba band in the courtroom.
Just let him try
If he so dares to throw a soldier under a UN Bus, he needs to be immediately stripped of his title “commander in chief”.
After all that then he will get a low interest loan so he can purchase a House and we might as well kick in a Credit Cards while were at it.
Soldiers who hesitate in battle wind up dead soldiers. It is both tragic and disgusting that nothing would please the left more.
I read that the order Obama gave was for rescue of Capt. Phillips and did not include taking out the pirates, thereby providing a perfect opportunity to throw the SEALs under the bus. This was why Obama as CinC scares me.
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