Posted on 04/14/2009 6:31:23 PM PDT by 4rcane
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RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas. Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama. David "Rodham" Gergen was discussing the ramifications of this last night. Let's go to sound bite eight. We'll use number eight. He was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night. Cooper said, "Does Obama need to move forward in this --" by the way, the Somali merchant marine organizers have hijacked four more ships today, four more ships have been hijacked.
It was three earlier today. They've hijacked an additional one now for a total of four today. And, of course, we predicted this yesterday. While bestowing upon Obama all the brilliance and credit he deserved for a brilliant operation, we were very much concerned here that this kind of action against three young teenagers, black Muslim teenagers on the high seas could anger the pirates, merchant marine organizers even more and heighten and increase hijack activity. The left itself warned us of this in Iraq, they said all we're doing is creating more terrorists. So apparently we've created more hijackings on the high seas, in the Gulf of Aden by teenaged black Muslims, the merchant marine organizers. Here's David "Rodham" Gergen responding to Anderson Cooper's question. "Does he need to move forward in this situation? Does he need to resolve the question of these other pirates, their hideouts along the coast there in Somalia, or does he just kind of move on and hope it doesn't happen again?"
GERGEN: The natural temptation is to want to go in with military force and clean out those nests of pirates and just demolish them for even touching an American in the way they did, but there are some complications. Anderson, in his case this is complicated by his diplomatic outreach to Muslims. He's done a good job laying the groundwork, reaching out in Turkey as we saw a few days ago. If he over-responds to this, if he uses force against Muslims in what seems an excessive way, it could totally undercut his own efforts.
RUSH: It was a risk that he took, no question. But of course until David "Rodham" Gergen mentioned it last night, nowhere else in the Drive-Bys was the fact that they were Muslims mentioned. That's why the use of the word pirates continues. The defense secretary, Robert Gates, said there is no purely military solution to merchant marine organizing in the region. "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." A Pentagon spokesman confirmed Gates' quotes which were first reported in the American Forces Press Service. There's nothing really we can do until we go in there and nation build is what he's saying. We gotta go in there and take care of the situation on land and build up their economy such that these kids don't feel the need to become merchant marine organizers. (interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley, you have a question here for your host? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. That was then, and this is now.
Mr. Snerdley is incredulous over the comments of the defense secretary that we can't stop piracy in a military way, there's no military solution. He pointed out that we have done it before, 200 years ago, and for the longest time there wasn't any piracy. Well, it's different now, Mr. Snerdley. There is no pure military solution to this, just like there's no military solution to terrorism. There's no military solution to anything is what you must take from this. The Obama administration, no military solution to anything, which is, of course, one of the foundational building blocks of liberalism, the military only screws things up. Al Sharpton, the head honcho of the National Action Network on his syndicated radio show yesterday.
SHARPTON: The so-called pirates, they call themselves voluntary Coast Guard in Somalia, which may be more apt.
RUSH: Well, there you have it, from one of America's true leaders of the civil rights movement, the black community, they're not even pirates. They are voluntary coast guards. So in fact what we have here, according to the Reverend Sharpton, these young kids, black Muslim kids, three of which were ordered shot by President Obama on Sunday afternoon, they're just a voluntary Coast Guard trying to protect Somalia, they're just patrolling off the coast of Somalia as sort of a voluntary National Guard, so-called pirates, they're not really pirates, according to reverend Sharpton. He's confirming me, Mr. Snerdley. Don't look so incredulous. They're just community organizers and they have decided to organize out on the high seas as a means of protecting their beloved country, is all this is about.
Hear Hear.
Rush was being facetious.
Some people don’t get Rush.
rush is illustrating absurdity with absurdity
From an LA Times story yesterday, "If the goal was just to kill these guys, there were opportunities where we could have shot them," the senior official said. "This was not the outcome we wanted. We wanted those three guys to give themselves up."
LOL. Obama always tries to have it both ways.
Uh..hum...WestWorld III or WWIII...something like that.
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!
Sort of a refined case of black on black violence. eh
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