Posted on 04/08/2009 3:25:45 AM PDT by tobyhill
Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with 21 crew members aboard, a diplomat and a U.S. Navy spokesman said.
The Kenya-based diplomat identified the vessel as the 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama and said all the crew members are American. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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Petticarus alive or the Rasuli dead. We need Teddy Roosevelt and we have Caligula.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Will Obama issue a “strongly worded statement”?
The Obama administration has jumped into action and is now on their second draft of the official apology.
Time to kick butt!
“Millions for defense, not a penny for tribute!” ~slogan from the Barbary Coast wars circa 1800 involving the fledgling U.S. Navy and Marines Corps.
Makes sense, it’s a pretty good bet that the current administration would sooner pay the ransom than dispatch a SEAL team to do what ought to be done.
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”
Why yes he will! He will type it in all CAPS and on red construction paper to show that he’s really mad. He may even write it in his native language, Arabic.
Once again, ships crews sailing in harms way are not allowed to defend themselves from pirates.
21 men on a dead man’s chest.
He's probably ticked at his relatives trying to mess up his Grand World Tour.
Maybe his friends the rooskies or China will rescue them for us. Or maybe the euros.
Somalia borders Kenya
Lets see how fired up our 3rd world Kenyan president gets over this abduction of Americans
One ringy dingy—— “Oh Banki Moon. Could you please issue a strongly worded statement for me? I’m too busy in Europe now”
First questions:
What shipping company would send Captain, crew, ship and cargo into an area of known piracy without the means to protect itself?
What captain of a ship would venture into those waters without the means to repel borders and do his duty as Captain to protect ship, cargo and crew, not necessarily in that order.
What crew man would allow himself to be on a ship in those waters, without the means to protect ship cargo and crew?
BECAUSE OF ZERO
BECAUSE OF F***IN' ZERO !!!
Bro’s!! What have I possibly done to offend you that you have treated me so mean? Here, I’ll let you have Michelle for a week. Just let that ship go!
This is your new world order that dosnt allow ships to carry weapons to defend themselves.
When you don’t allow defensive weapons the criminals are the only ones with weapons. It’s party time for pirates.
This is what the UN wants to do to America, disarm us and leave us to the mercy of thugs.
Being pirates, they probably don’t view themselves as bound by UN treaties on ship armaments.
No, he will apologize for America being so arrogant as to sail a ship in Islamic waters.
Will Obama issue a “strongly worded statement”?
A strongly worded apology to these feral followers of Muhammad.
He's been apologizing to Europe for weeks so now he's ready to apologize to Africa
Count on Rush Limbaugh to open with this
He loves Somali pirate news and this is the hottest one since Americans got kidnapped
These Americans are very lucky if they aren't already being taken off ship to the slums of Mogadishu (which is 99% slum anyway) to be held for deep ransom
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