Posted on 04/10/2009 2:06:02 AM PDT by Liz
A US Navy destroyer stranded a hapless group of Somali pirates on the high seas. "We are surrounded by warships and don't have time to talk," one terrified pirate told Reuters via satellite phone.....the four blubbering buccaneers refused to release Capt. Richard Phillips, as the 510-foot destroyer USS Bainbridge, spy planes and drones kept tabs on the pirates' stranded, covered lifeboat, which had run out of fuel, with 10 days of emergency rations aboard. Capt. Richard Phillips offered himself as a hostage after his crew locked themselves in a room containing the ship's controls when the pirates boarded the vessel 250 miles off the Somali coast. US Central Command boss Gen. David Petraeus said the military will increase its presence near the Horn of Africa..... Capt Phillips, 53, had a radio and had additional batteries and provisions, Maersk said. The Maersk Alabama was ordered to sail for Mombasa, Kenya, with its cargo of food relief.....An 18-man, armed security detail from the Bainbridge was aboard the Alabama. "No one is coming to the pirates' rescue, that's for sure," said retired US Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold. "It's a waiting game and time is on the Navy's side. The pirates are in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean. The only card they have to play is the captain."
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Glad the Navy weighed in to help out us landubbers.
Yes...Obama BOWED....Bush did not.
This is how I would do it.
Get an underwater SEAL team in very close. Set the raft ablaze. Fire is one thing where people lose control of their thoughts and only think of self preservation and preservation of their families.
The pirates won’t think about Philips because they will be thinking about their own self preservation. All will go into the drink. The SEAL team plucks Philips out of the drink and kills the pirates.
Game over.
“Here you go. A picture of George W. Bush BOWING to Abdullah”
The Saudi King was putting something around Bush’s nexk. Look at the Kings hands.
If we were serious, that boat would have turned into a cloud of splinters ten seconds after the Captain jumped overboard
Correct. What was the medal anyway? The video shows something.
The video shows W getting a medal of some kind.
This thread is about the Somali pirates and inaction by 0bama.
Are you so thick you can't tell the difference between Obama bowing and Bush bending over so the king could place a medal ribbon over his head?
Give it up, newbie.
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Did the White House issue a denial?
Is there proof?
Was George Bush’s college tuition paid by arabs?
Are you so thick that you don’t know that the Bush’s ties with the House of Saud run deep?
Do you want me to post the picture of Abdullah and Bush holding hands, or will you not believe your lying eyes?
Did George Bush come from a muslim background?
I do not think so, but ties between America and Wahhabist despots runs long and deep. Obama just appears to be continuing our tradition.
No way the big guys would let 'criminal scumbags' get millions of dollars in ransom money. The Jihadis are running the show.
Sounds like you are accusing them of being gay which is NOT the same as a bow. The bow at the waist was a definite breach of protocol and it is being seen as a submissive gesture in the Arab world. So says Catherine Herridge of FOX and she is a straight shooter.
The WH has compounded it by lying about it. Why lie about a gaffe? There is just no need for it.
If he lies about that, what else will odumba lied about? What else HAS he lied about?
George Bush most emphatically did *not* bow to the Saudi King.
I wasn’t defending Obama, I was just pointing out the double standard.
Bush kissed the a**es of the wahhabists in the Middle East. Neo-conservatives were largely silent. Now that Obama is doing it, it becomes an outrage.
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