Quick Draw Obama
Hey Obamabots! How do you like your “cowboy presidency” now?
President Barack Obama issued a standing order to use force against pirates holding an American captain hostage – including giving a Navy commander the authority to act if he believed the captain’s life was in danger, two senior defense officials said Sunday night.
Navy snipers aboard the USS Bainbridge on Sunday shot and killed three of the pirates after the Bainbridge’s commander gave the order, when a pirate was spotted aboard the lifeboat pointing an AK-47 rifle at Capt. Richard Phillips, one defense official said.
Unlike you liberal weenies, I am going to … pause … while I stand and applaud President Obama for giving the orders to shot the Somali mf-ers in the head. That’s some mighty fine shootin’, boys.
However, we now return you to your previously elected president:
Obama’s involvement in the decision to authorize lethal force was legally required, officials said, because it was a hostage situation, not combat, and unrelated to the already authorized U.S. effort against al-Qaida and other terror groups, officials said.
“It’s not a combat operation so the lawyers wanted to ensure this was done right,” said a second defense official.
Not a combat operation?
They’ve got AK-47s pointed at the captain’s head, having hijacked his ship, and it’s not a combat operation? Then what the hell were combat forces doing there??
Not a combat operation, my ass. I don’t care what the lawyers say, is there a judge or jury in the nation (our nation) that would convict these heroes?
Michelle thinks Obama should have crowed a bit more:
Nine words missing. Stated clearly by Navy Vice Admiral William Gortney. But not directly, publicly, and loudly by our commander-in-chief:
“The United States government policy is to not negotiate.”
I would add four more words, the last words any future pirates will ever hear if they should so much as come over the horizon of any US-flagged boat:
Head shot or chest?
PS: Thank you
[T]he fact that their acts of piracy or terrorism are criminalized under American law gives us an additional option. It does not mean we cannot treat an act of war as an act of war.
Martino said,
April 13, 2009 @ 11:49 am
Thank goodness the lawyers got involved. Without the fine marksmanship skills of those lawyers, the capt. might never have been freed.
Obama, You Nearly Blew It with Somali Pirates « Frugal Café Blog Zone said,
April 13, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
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