Posted on 04/13/2009 6:07:49 PM PDT by tobyhill
Reporting from Washington -- Before ending a pirate standoff with three fatally precise shots, U.S. Navy SEAL snipers had passed on multiple opportunities to fire.
They had moved into position after the White House expanded the authority it had given the world's most powerful navy against a rag-tag foe holding an American hostage.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
God help us if we have another 9-11 while Obama is in office.
I'll wager you are wrong -- and he gets Iranian caviar.
/sarc>
A'RRRRRR! We be quantum pirates, and we'll make ye walk the Planck!
(We'll never be sure you jumped, though.)
Cheers!
Under rules issued by the WH, you can bet the pirates would still be alive.
My money is on the Captain of the Bainbridge and the SEAL team leader not wanting to spend the rest of their lives knowing their careers were defined by having been on scene hogtied when a lifeboat evaded a warship and made it to safety along with the hostage.
What, no polls to help the decision process????
It's like we want to give them a fighting chance or something.
What did his teleprompter tell him to do?
Thank the Good Lord that there were real Americans on those boat crews off the Bainbridge and Boxer.
That may soon change, a very sad thing.
If I’ve told you 999 times, Ive told you a million times not to exagerate
God help us if we have another 9-11 while Obama is in office.
yes, unfortunately, we see what he will do and how fast he will do it by the actions he took with his own “Katrina in North Dakota”
The wording I heard... as to taking out the root cause in Somalia.... the shipman used ‘implore’ in his statement to 0.
Have a no-freep job, dammit, so I’m always way behind.
Words have meanings. ‘Implore’ is a very unusual way to state the request.
Briefed 18 times? Reagan would only need one.
How many times does a guy have to try to escape before President EARS decides killing the “man caused disaster” guys would be a good idea?
never said other wise
I am pointing out that the capt life was on danger form the get go and even more so when he jumped overboard
the order was if the Capt’s life was threatened and it was from day one so the question is when did the order to use deadly force come about.
I think obama gave the order later on as he wanted to talk instead hence the FBI and it was only the quick thinking of the Navy capt and the seals which saved him as the navy capt used that order to his advantage knowing full well that those pirates would have made it to the shore
again well done to the seals and the Navy
Too bad Zero had not come out to the life boat to do a little community organizing. He would have shown us a thing of two!!!!
Buahahahahaha
LOL
maybe the FBI smooth talk needed phoney’s teleprompter as talking was going no where
I asked the mod to move this very important article to the “breaking news section”. Finally the truth came out.
I was attacked for stating that
The life was in danger and especially when the man jumped overboard but because obama wanted so much to reach out to muslims and make this a criminal case while trying to prove talking is better than bombing.
you can bet your houses that if talks had prevailed then phony would have been on TV saying see told you so , we do not need to use force like we have in the past
Now he cannot use that line
This was all about trying to show the world that he has brought in a new era of not hurting people and we are kum by yar or how ever you spell it /
Thank full there are some mostly on here who can see through this white house and media twist and propaganda.
phony should have given the order right away, shoot to kill when you have the chance
Now he needs to go after the pirates there and get their ships
obozo the clown looks at foreign policy as a pesky little thing getting in the way of his radical domestic agenda
and from a liberal rag too
In their briefing yesterday, the Navy said they did not want the pirates killed. It makes no sense except to Dems I guess.
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