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1 posted on 04/12/2009 9:16:18 AM PDT by Mariner
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>> They do not have SEAL teams...nor even snipers...onboard.

One word: “Helicopter”.


2 posted on 04/12/2009 9:18:22 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Party? I don't have one anymore.)
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They could have flown a SEAL team in within hours. Don’t need to wait for the Boxer.


3 posted on 04/12/2009 9:18:43 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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You see no problem with having to use a 60,000 ton LPH and 3,500 men to stop a 1/2 ton lifeboat?


4 posted on 04/12/2009 9:19:41 AM PDT by pabianice
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If that lifeboat reaches the shore with the Captain still aboard, Obama needs to be impeached.

This has gone on long enough. Pray for the Captain that he will remain strong and focussed.

Unlike his CIC.


7 posted on 04/12/2009 9:21:42 AM PDT by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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You might be right. I have no doubt that the USN can resolve this particular incident, I have a lot of doubt about the political will of Obama to resolve it.

I am more worried about the longer term. The only way to deal with pirates is to attack their land bases and wipe out their resources. Sink their boats. Wreck their docks. Demolish their houses. Hang the perps after a drumhead court martial. Kill their relatives, their goats, people they have lent money to, relatives of the people they lent money to, everyone who is even tangentially involved in this.

8 posted on 04/12/2009 9:22:09 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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You don’t think a SEAL team can be inserted by helicopter? Even a submarine, which is what I would probably opt for, at night.


9 posted on 04/12/2009 9:23:08 AM PDT by ryan71 (Time to buy guns and ammo, People.)
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The USS Boxer is already there.


10 posted on 04/12/2009 9:23:12 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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Barry O’s just like every other left-winger in America. They are willing to use the US military so long as it doesn’t advance America’s interest or protect her citizens or her security.


11 posted on 04/12/2009 9:23:19 AM PDT by hometoroost (Eine Reich, Eine Volk, Eine Teleprompter)
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Oh, gosh, I hope liberals don’t get the wrong idea that the USS Boxer is named after Barbara.


12 posted on 04/12/2009 9:24:21 AM PDT by Ben Reyes (Palin 2012)
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I heard there was an 18 man security detail put on the Maersk Alabama for her to continue to her destination - also heard these were Navy SEALS - is that incorrect?


14 posted on 04/12/2009 9:24:42 AM PDT by TiredofItalltoo (tiredofitalltoo)
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My thoughts zaclly...SEALs so good at their job.... if allowed this will be over soon.......irks me those that don’t have a clue will reap the benies.....Me even thinking life boat being monitored from below the water line as we speak...


15 posted on 04/12/2009 9:25:45 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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Navy Seals can be located any place they want. They could have been placed on the destroyer prior to its arrival on site. Special Ops can accomplish much more than the average person is aware of.


16 posted on 04/12/2009 9:26:23 AM PDT by RC2
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Navy SEALs are supposed to be able to deploy anywhere in the world on a moment's notice, by sea, air, or land. There's really no excuse for them to not be aboard the Bainbridge at this point, even though don't I don't think that's the case.


17 posted on 04/12/2009 9:26:34 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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When there is a crisis, we learn what our leader is made of...ZERO is a dingle-berry.


20 posted on 04/12/2009 9:29:22 AM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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I’d love to see a helicopter grab the lifeboat, pick it up, and deposit it on the deck of the destroyer surrounded by a company of armed Marines.

Probably not feasible, but I’d still like to see it.


23 posted on 04/12/2009 9:30:28 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (HOPE and CHANGE? More like BAIT and SWITCH.)
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And I am pretty sure that the lifeboat WILL reach shore. 0 has seen fit to let the media cover this up(NYT had one small article hidden way in the back) because he will not order anything that might upset his muslim brothers in arms. 0 is not even fit to manage a pig farm let alone be POTUS and Commander in Chief.


30 posted on 04/12/2009 9:33:29 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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Even with full sheets to the wind, she is no help.
32 posted on 04/12/2009 9:34:02 AM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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Obama cannot risk anything that may kill the Captain. It would cause such political damage that it might begin an uncontrollable decline in his poll numbers. Political capital tends to evaporate like that. A mere 9 months after his re-election, Bush's capital was exhausted.

The French attacked a 4-on-5 situation (4 gunmen, 5 hostages) and one hostage was killed. This is a 4-on-1 situation, 2 orders of magnitude greater odds of his death resulting from an assault. I know we are not the French, but I don't see any way Obama will permit any kind of assault at this stage. Particularly with the other foreign human shields complicating his new naive peacenik outreach to the world if they were to be killed in retaliation. Obama's goal is to get the Captain out without anyone being captured or killed, and look to a Somalian solution later on. That won't work, either. But this is how the Left thinks.

35 posted on 04/12/2009 9:35:47 AM PDT by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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Seal team How deep is that water these guys come out of submarines also..and that frigate has seal personal on-board.
46 posted on 04/12/2009 9:41:21 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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The SEALs and their equipment could be flown to friendly bases in Yemen.


52 posted on 04/12/2009 9:44:55 AM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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