Obama is barely treading water now, he has sunk so low..
Posted on 04/08/2009 4:04:52 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine
Don't nitpick a nitpicker. ; )
Set the trap.. They will come!
Pirates keep attacking merchant vessels because they don’t get shot doing it. If they try to board the ship, shoot them...
They will blame Bush.
Paging Janet: man made disaster stat.
cargo is relief aid for Kenya where Bambi’s cousin Odinga started riots and church burnings. Guess Bambi’s helping his cousin’s country first.
The ship was going to Kenya. Obama’s homeland.
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Somali pirates captured a US flagged civilian crewed freighter with relief supplies bound for Kenya - first time in over 200 years since Thomas Jefferson
The crew took the ship back but the pirates have the US freighter’s Captain and 1st Mate as hostages in a small lifeboat off the huge US freighter
WRONG: “US is sending US warships but at 30 knots they are 13-14 hours away”
WRONG: “Other countries warships are closer - but still at least 3 hours away”
Obama had probably ordered US warships further away from Somalia.... before this
Muslim terrorists have captured a civilian US-flagged/crewed freighter
North Korea captured a US spyship - the USS Pueblo - in International waters under President Ford - still have it in NK - and their US Navy crew - held them a long time
When GW was inaugurated the Chi-Coms forced a US turboprop mapping-spyplane flying over International waters - to land on a Chi=Com island - held the crew hostage and kept the plane and tore it apart for intelligence info and spy-tek hardware secrets
Obama should have instantly ordered US Navy or US Air Force fighters and bombers to the area - less than 20-30 minutes away in a jet - and Apache choppers -
And maybe a B-2 Bomber with huge bombloads and a super long flightrange - or a Jolly Green..... To “circle”
Only the Captain now says Shep on FNC
No other Coalition ships in that area - early report was wrong
US warships only 200 miles away - still 7-8 hours away
If the pirates head to a Mother Ship and back into a Somali port - the US would have to bomb or invade Somali to get the US civvie freighter back
Obama is no Reagan
He will want to pay $10,000,000-plus BAILOUT for the US Captain
The Pentagon and US Navy and US Marines will not want to go along with Obama on that
Reagan: “No blackmail to be paid”
Obama is stuck now any way he goes:
#1 - Obama ordered a US freighter to KENYA!!!!!! (with a “whitey” US Captain & crew!) full of cooking oil, rice, etc. to head for (Muslim) Kenya (!) with suppies for Islamic Somalia, Islamic Kenya, other savage/stoneage African 3rd world countries thAt still have slavery, cannibalism, drive-in rape festivals, midnight basketball.....
#2 - Obama had then moved US warships that had help clean up the Somalia/Indian Ocean area in January well away from Africa
#3 - Obama sent a US civilian freighter into a large radical Islamic terrorist / pirate controlled area
#4 - Obama did not respond correctly or quickly - in AF-Zero in the air flying back from Europe
#5 - Obama has not sent US aircraft to stop the lifeboat the pirates took - with the US Captain from leaving and getting away before US warships can get there
#6 - Obama will blame Bush or others if the Somali Muslim pirates kill the US freighter Captain
It’s another Hussein II Pansy Scheme!!!!!
Here’s what Wikipedia says on the Barbary Wars fought by our founding fathers. I think it’s a pretty decent article on the topic.
You can see that they were not completely unified on exactly what to do about the piracy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring “concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury”, the ambassador replied:
[Words of Jefferson follow / angkor]
“It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy’s ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.”
Jefferson reported the conversation to Secretary of State John Jay, who submitted the Ambassador’s comments and offer to Congress. Jefferson argued that paying tribute would encourage more attacks. Although John Adams agreed with Jefferson, he believed that circumstances forced the U.S. to pay tribute until an adequate navy could be built. The U.S. had just fought an exhausting war, which put the nation deep in debt. Federalist and anti-federalist forces argued over the needs of the country and the burden of taxation. Jefferson’s own Democratic-Republicans and anti-navalists believed that the future of the country lay in westward expansion, with Atlantic trade threatening to siphon money and energy away from the new nation on useless wars in the Old World.[4] The U.S. paid Algiers the ransom, and continued to pay up to $1 million per year over the next 15 years for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. Payments in ransom and tribute to the privateering states amounted to 20 percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson continued to argue for cessation of the tribute, with rising support from George Washington and others. With the recommissioning of the American navy in 1794 and the resulting increased firepower on the seas, it became increasingly possible for America to refuse paying tribute, although by now the long-standing habit was hard to overturn.
Obama is barely treading water now, he has sunk so low..
Tell FUOB to strap a pair and put a stop to the pirates now and restore America's historic image as the good-guys with the strength. No US flagship should be boarded by pirates, especially Islamic pirates.
just a one-timer to those who’ve posted here:
American crew regains control of pirated ship
CBS NEWS | 04/08/09 | Me
Posted on 04/08/2009 8:26:16 AM PDT by Robe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224875/posts
Obama's doomday weapon.
“North Korea captured a US spyship - the USS Pueblo - in International waters under President Ford ...”
Johnson
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You are correct
My history has a +/- 10 years fudge factor on many exact dates of many thousands of incidents or actions
The content being the most important
does anyone realize the qualification to be accepted to the Merchant Marine Acadamy. Easier to get into West Point. God Bless the Merchant Marine!
I think Somalia is already doing that.
Agreed. I used to live in NYC near the East (it's really a strait but everyone calls it a) River and recall more than once seeing the MM Academy's ship come by full of students yelling, waving, etc. on what I guess was their annual training cruise.
Letting them starve—they are starving themselves but in the meantime we are letting them into this country by the thousands.
The ones I know all believe in sharia and the males all have several wives both here and over there in the kenyan refugee camps. The all love OBL and the fury in their mosques on friday is unbelievable. The kids will all come here one day.
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