Posted on 04/13/2009 4:00:39 AM PDT by Hanna548
President Barack Obama twice authorized the military to rescue a U.S. captain held by Somali pirates and whose life appeared to be at risk. Officials say Obama gave the OK on Friday and Saturday to rescue Capt. Richard Phillips from a lifeboat off the Somali coast. Officials say both times the Pentagon believed Phillips' life was at risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Seems to me the truth is that the Navy HAD TO ASK TWICE BECAUSE OBAMA DID NOT DELIVER THE FIRST TIME.
The facts are already in, he has been lying from day one.
“I really think none of this is as the media says it is. Last week as I listened to radio news talk about the FBI negotiator, they were going on and on about how difficult hostage negotiations are and the need for experts in such matters. Another diss on the military. This did not go the way Obama had planned me thinks!”
Negotiating obviously doesn’t work. Will the administration ever be questioned on this? Will they ever admit that the only way to deal with thugs is to use force? Obama will take the credit but he definitely wanted to talk to the pirate fellas and have them give up because there’s change in America now and we aren’t mean anymore and blah blah blah.
He did NOT give the “shoot to kill” order until AFTER Capt. Phillips jumped OVERBOARD and was RE-CARPTURED!!! BO did NOT let the Navy shoot the Pirates UNTIL AFTER!! He only ok’d it on FRIDAY NITE!!!
Or he gave it, then took it away and gave it again? good grief;/
This report says something different
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/sorry-libs-obama-did-not-order-kill.html
Actually according to the Admiral, they had a standing order NOT to take any action UNLESS the Captain was in imminent danger. Now considering that they didn’t do anything until the Captain had a gun pointed at his back and the on scene commander felt the pirate intended to use it on the Captain, only then was he able to order the shot as per Obama’s instructions.
Obama’s definition of imminent danger is vastly different than mine.
Anyway the video makes it perfectly clear exactly what happened.
http://wbztv.com/video/?id=75239
Yes, I know that the story about twice putting out the rescue order is fantasy. I was just letting everyone know what the BO is saying about it. My comment should have made that clear. What your link says is correct. That was taken off of the video I posted, which makes it clear that Obama had nothing to do with it, other than he gave a standing order NOT to take any action unless the Captain was in imminent danger and the definition of that apparently is when he has a gun to his back and it seems the pirate is intent on pulling the triger.
If the gave it twice, does that mean that he TOOK the first approval away?
But who cares about this anyway...there's an EASTER EGG HUNT TODAY!!! And the dog, BO comes!!
Sorry, I should have read the whole thing. I’ve been skimming throught articles this morning.
Bingo! But he sure wanted to have something to do with it.
LLS
Let us keep in mind that this is a relatively very easy problem compared to the other security issues that we are facing and we are going to face.
Al Qaeda terrorists, the Taliban terrorists, the Iranian terrorist regime, North Korean communist regime, and a host of other enemies are laughing because they know that Obama is the weakest President ever since it took him 5 days to resolve a hostage situation with the 3 ragtag pirates trapped in a tiny boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean surrounded by the mightiest fleet in history of man.
At the same time let us give our great thanks to the brave Captain and to the heroes of our military who freed him. If they were given the orders by Obama in the first day they would have saved him back then and not 5 days after.
Consider that it’s Jennifer Loven reporting (she’s always the first one he calls on at pressers), you can be sure Rahm gave her all the explicit talking points (especially since the outcome was good) to make sure that we, the American public, can rest safely now that our “CIC” is being portrayed to be soooo in command. Rubbish.
Go SEALS!!!!!
We’re going to “press charges” against the 4th “pirate”?
I want him hung and their boats reduced to splinters - NOW!
This is why we need to be ever vigilant. I heard yesterday that all the stuff that goes up on YouTube and such is carefully edited first. We need to catch the live stuff, like the video I posted so we know the truth as best we can. Then throw it in his face. Gosh i hate liars.:((( Especially when they do it just to make themselves look good when they did absolutely nothing to deserve it and thereby take away the alcolades the real heros should be getting. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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