Posted on 02/24/2011 8:32:48 PM PST by Nachum
The U.S. government came under fire today for chartering a rescue boat for Americans stuck in Libya that is too small to cope with the rough Mediterranean sea.
Hundreds of American citizens are spending a second night in Tripoli aboard the Maria Dolores, a small passenger ferry chartered by the U.S., trapped there because of adverse weather conditions.
At the same time larger Greek and Turkish vessels have transported thousands of their own citizens to safety, crossing the choppy water to mainland Europe.
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A target it sounds like for a dying regime to strike at.
Jimmy Carter of logistics...
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Is the owner of the Maria Dalores an Obama campaign donor?
I think they are hostages and they won’t tell us.
I’d be angry, but I already am.
Greece is flat ass broke and they can wrangle up the necessary ship to save their folk. Amatures!
The Student Teacher in the WH strikes again. Hope the MoTown Party was fun!
If they were in danger, the captain would have left.
Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan are spinning in their graves right now.
wtf!
I bet its a “green” boat. Environmentally friendly and all that.
Mr 0bama? I’d like to introduce you to Sixth Fleet. Sixth Fleet, meet your Commander in Chief. Stop snickering.
Or said another way... the Greeks sailed regardless of conditions, when prudence may have dictated the exercise of caution.
For that catamaran to be moored due to sea conditions, I think it’s fair to assume that the water was something more than merely “choppy”. Those ships can handle some fairly rough seas. What sort of weather and seas are we talking about here?
Their union may require them to use the Maria Dolores, eh?
Because 'someone' was hoping they would all drown.
I’ve sailed the Med in a Knox class frigate (4000+ ton loaded) during February. The seas were the roughest I’ve encountered.
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Whinning the Future.
Where are the Marines?!
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