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Defense secretary: Killed Somali pirates were "untrained" teenagers ("No Military Solution")
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| 4/13/2009
| Mu Xuequan
Posted on 04/13/2009 3:27:57 PM PDT by tobyhill
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday that three Somali pirates who were killed by the Navy's Seals to end a hostage crisis were "untrained" teenagers.
Addressing an audience at the Marine Corps War College in Quantico, Virginia, Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced.
They were shot dead on Sunday at the end of a five-day standoff with the U.S. military after they attacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship about 400 kilometers away from Somali and held an American captain as hostage.
"As long as you've got this incredible number of poor people and the risks are relatively small, there's really no way in my view to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids," Gates told students and faculty members.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; ashoura; bho44; bhodod; bhosecdef; hateamericafilth; liberals; maritime; pirates; quantico; robertgates; rop; somalipirates; trop
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:27:57 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:29:22 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: tobyhill
well they will now not grow up to be trained killers
To: tobyhill
Lead changes equations especially from well trained American Military experts. Bill Ayers weeps.
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:29:37 PM PDT
by
junta
(Not even respectable mainstream conservatives can save liberalism.)
To: tobyhill
Midnight basketball.....yea, that will fix everything!
To: tobyhill
>Defense secretary: Killed Somali pirates were “untrained” teenagers.
Can we impeach him?
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:29:55 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Good. As they say, if you’re in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:30:28 PM PDT
by
marron
To: tobyhill
Sounds like we just need to raise the risks for them...
To: tobyhill
To: tobyhill
that three Somali pirates who were killed by the Navy's Seals to end a hostage crisis were "untrained" teenagers. LOL! Oh, we have trained pirates now, do we?
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:31:18 PM PDT
by
bill1952
(Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: tobyhill
Maybe US taxpayers (or the UN, funded there from) can pony up the $$ to bring the pirates up to snuff, and that’ll make it fair.
To: tobyhill
Good gawd...does it matter?
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:31:45 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: junta
Gates says there is no military solution and Obama says he will combat them. I guess our military needs their bucket of spitballs back.
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:31:45 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
("Hope and Change" is so overrated!)
To: tobyhill
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
To: OneWingedShark
Dear Mr. Gates:
We have lots of untrained teenagers with guns here too. They're called GANG MEMBERS! And they regularly KILL PEOPLE!
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:32:47 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Hey Pirates - you got yer asses kicked!)
To: OneWingedShark
"Defense secretary: Killed Somali pirates were “untrained” teenagers." Poor babies.
The mean ol USA shouldn't have had our dangerous ships out there in the first place. Afterall, Black (and Islamic) youts were playing there.
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:33:04 PM PDT
by
blam
To: tobyhill
"untrained teenagers"Consider them schooled.
To: tobyhill
Does this make Obama a war criminal?
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posted on
04/13/2009 3:33:15 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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