Obama will respond with an apology, a terse letter and another 15% spending cut in our Navy.
Just heard on the radio that the crew has retaken the ship! Leave it to an American crew to take care of business!
Confirmed via the Pentagon FOX reporting the ship has been re-taken by the crew! WOOO HOOOO!
Can I just say that there is much more to this than meets the eye?
...and STILL not a peep from Obama!
I wonder if Michael Moore will refer to this in his next movie as Obama’s “My Pet Goat” moment?
Pirates keep attacking merchant vessels because they don’t get shot doing it. If they try to board the ship, shoot them...
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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!!!!!
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