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Video of Obama at the Yahoo website.
1 posted on 04/14/2009 11:25:01 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Piracy is a crime, not an act of war, Navy officials said, and pirates have an infrastructure ashore that supports their operations, making it impossible to solve at sea .... On Sunday, snipers on the stern of the USS Bainbridge shot and killed three pirates who were holding Capt. Richard Phillips .

Looks to me like the sniper has already proven that the (hopefully civilian) spokesman is wrong. If we simply prevent all acts of piracy from succeeding, we've solved the problem.

40 posted on 04/14/2009 12:47:11 PM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
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DUmmie FUnnies 04-14-09 (Of Pirates and Patriotism: A DUmmie Dilemma)

SOMALIAN PIRATES
Tune: "Lincoln Park Pirates"

In Somalia where I live, there's a, there's an outfit that'd hijack almost anything on the sea. But they deal mostly with ships, and we call 'em, "Somalian Pirates. . . ."

The vessels are out on the ocean tonight
The calm sea makes nary a splash
The merchants are haulin'
The trawlers are trawlin'
But somebody's fishin' for cash

Yes, those crewmen are mindin' their business, he said
But we got work of our own
So hijack their boats
And we'll write ransom notes
And we'll see who will float us a loan

To me, way, hey, make 'em all pay
Somalian Pirates are we
We plunder the nations
It's called reparations
We're spreadin' the wealth 'round, you see

To me, way, hey, make 'em all pay
We're not doin' anything new
When ships want to sail out
We make 'em our bailout
Somalis need stimulus too

Obama's a brother from Kenya
A leader who's canny and wise
He will softly and smooth "yes we can" ya
And rob you in front of your eyes

So we've taken a page from his playbook
And we're changin' the words that we use
No longer we'll call it a "ransom"
"Investment's" the term that we choose

To me, way, hey, make 'em all pay
Somalian Pirates are we
We plunder the nations
It's called reparations
We're spreadin' the wealth 'round, you see

To me, way, hey, make 'em all pay
We're not doin' anything new
When ships want to sail out
We make 'em our bailout
Somalis need stimulus too

And when all the ships have been boarded
And all of their owners are broke
Then we'll have to do like Barack Obama
And find some new suckers to soak

'Cause even with all of the ransoms
There's millions more dollars we need
Now for money supply it's
The Washington Pirates
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid

To me, way, hey, make 'em all pay
Somalian Pirates are we
We plunder the nations
It's called reparations
We're spreadin' the wealth 'round, you see

To me, way, hey, make 'em all pay
Now soon we'll be done with the sea
No more brazen attacks
We'll just raise the tax
Let's join the thieves in DC!

43 posted on 04/14/2009 1:01:58 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (The wag tailoring the doggerel)
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...the Pentagon said there's little it can do to stop future attacks.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates still thinks he needs to get approval from the Faculty Senate.

52 posted on 04/14/2009 3:25:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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They’ll fight BACK?? I do believe they are the ones that instigate this, so that’s not fighting BACK. We are fighting BACK.
and btw, gee, I’m so sorry we don’t lie down and let you kidnap and murder our countrymen. How rude of us, of course the somalis are angry at us.


56 posted on 04/15/2009 6:45:19 AM PDT by DeLaine
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

More like “not allowed.”

I can think of a couple things that would stifle piracy in that area altogether (and outrage various ‘Human Rights’ organizations).


59 posted on 04/15/2009 9:13:22 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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