and that he didn’t have to wait for the OK from the clueless White House.

n/t

anything coming out of the administration.

If we were a news site, it’s a good slogan. And it was true for me today.

to give the pirates aon land and sea a taste of F-15 fire power. But I don’t think we will.

this to be spun as brilliant and decisive leadership (I heard Obama actually lead the Seals in the operation. Well has he been on TV the last two days?) no matter what the real story is.

By the time the MSM is done it will be the D-day invasion or the 101st Airborne’s defense of Bastogne,

If Obama did something right than fine, but I would like the truth on what really happened.

..

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

Apparently the poll results finally arrived at the White House. In addition to tallying up the votes on which church BHO should grace with his butt, poll results clearly indicated that the rest of country would be ok with something more than harsh words for the pirates. Save the hard stare and stern words for the little pot-bellied pig in NoKo. Blow the scum sucking pirates from here to Tripoli and back.

God bless the Navy Seals.

So are the SEALS.

Now let’s take care of this problem once and for all. Screw the excuses for WHY they turned to piracy. Make it too risky for them to continue. NO ONE touches a U.S. citizen abroad. Period, End of Discussion.

And he also deploys the Navy, including SEALS. He is the commander in chief. We can’t have it both ways.

don’t take credit or assume what they do is unusual. They just presume that everyone would act the way they do because it is the right thing to do.

The Maersk CEO just conveyed Captain Phillips thanks to the Navy Seals. Captain Phillips is a true hero.

take place. If a similar situation happens after that, would we even be able to have ships in the Indian ocean? It’s a good thing for Phillips that this is still basically GWB’s military, at least as far as strength and resources are concerned.

to cast us as overreaching in our critcisms here.

They’re also itching to say nice things about Obama.

Be sure that the president really IS to blame before we criticize him here.

Our credibility is at stake. And, seeing as we no longer hold any positions of power nationwide, our credibility is about all we have left.

Captain Phillips is the hero here not President Obama. It was Capt Phillips who acted courageously to save himself and his crew. Meanwhile the Obama administration was busy negotiating with “moderate” tribal elders who had refused to arrest the pirates. Does anyone really think the Captain would have been saved had he waited on the Obama administration rather then jumping out of the lifeboat not once but twice?How many days would he have remained a hostage while the Obama administration sought talks with “moderate” pirates.

beret jauntily on handsome head, but not covering those ears, will modestly take credit whichever way he can. Now he can speak, for the moment taking leave from the housing market and the governments plans to expand the wreckage.
A hero for our time.

These guys will want revenge. They still hold a knife to the jugular of the world’s oil shipments and more. Now what do we do?

First Captain Sulley! Now Captain Phillips…. Seems there still may be hope for this Nation as long as we follow the Lead of Real hero’s and not those we prop up for our own selfish reasons….

I haven’t seen much in the way of news reports, but…………………

The MSM are gonna make Teh Mess-I-Yah a bigger hero to the moonbats then he is already. They’ll go head over tea kettle to distance President Teleprompter from the Navy Commander at the scene…… they’ll put it out there that Obama said “whatever, dude, whatever” and that the Navy Commander took it upon himself to “initiate a violent encounter endangering the lives of civilians”.

I bet somebody on MSNBC will report almost the following exact words. Maybe they’ll even stage an interview with Nancy Pelosi to do it. You damn straight know she thinks like this………………..

On Monday’s Hardbawlz with Christine Matthews…………..

The unnecessary and violent military action undertaken by US Navy personnel in murdering three of four civilian entrepreneurs on the high seas will result in even more violence. We really need to pass a law on paper that will ban guns all around the world so this kind of tragedy will stop.

Folks, get ready for some BAD things said about all of us who dare to stand behind and alongside true heroes and those who willingly go in harm’s way.

I can’t believe they are even having this discussion. (rhetorical…I actually expected this.)

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97H54KO0&show_article=1&catnum=0

“Both Miller and Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said no decisions have been made regarding charges against the lone surviving pirate.

“The Justice Department will be reviewing the evidence and other issues to determine whether to seek prosecution in the United States,” Boyd said. ”

snip

“Attorney General Eric Holder said this past week that the U.S. hasn’t seen a case of piracy against an American ship in hundreds of years. U.S. prosecutors do have jurisdiction to bring charges when a crime is committed against a U.S. citizen or on a U.S. ship.

Officials said the pirate surrendered to U.S. forces. Details of the surrender were not immediately unclear but, under international law, the Navy has the right to hold pirates captured at sea and does not need to negotiate extradition with another country.”

We will wind up having to let this “criminal” go if he winds up in US Federal Court because the SEALS forgot to Mirandize him.

These leftist, relativist, morally bankrupt idiots are going to get us all killed. They gotta go.

The folks we are trying to impress with how fair we are, will see it as unfair no matter the outcome.

Save time and money — he was caught red-handed in the act of piracy. Summary judgment. Pirates — wanted dead or alive, dead preferred.

don’t they require that at least one American be killed, one wife widowed or one mother left bereft in sorrow. Are we not fighting under the flag of modern liberalism where only death will justify as the Times would say,”a measured response.
Calling Eric Holder, calling Eric Holder.
Obama can still be a hero and we can still persecute our military.
Liberalism is always having it both ways.

The latest from the AP jeez

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and LARA JAKES, Associated Press Writers Elizabeth A. Kennedy And Lara Jakes, Associated Press Writers – 7 mins ago

MOMBASA, Kenya – U.S. forces freed an American ship captain and killed three of his captors Sunday in a daring rescue that ended a five-day standoff between the world’s most powerful navy and Somali pirates in a lifeboat far off the Horn of Africa.

Capt. Richard Phillips was in “imminent danger” of being killed before snipers shot the pirates in an operation authorized by President Barack Obama, Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said.

He said the pirates were armed with AK-47s and small-caliber pistols and were pointing the rifles at the captain when the commander of the nearby USS Bainbridge gave the order to open fire.

Gortney, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, said the White House had given “very clear guidance and authority” to take action if Phillips’ life was in danger.

Phillips represented us well.

If the account above holds up, I can at least acknowledge that the President didn’t tie the hands of those on the scene when the pirates were pointing the rifles at the captain.

My acknowledgment will abruptly stop when the liberals start to spin this as a “courageous” authorization. Is the bar so low that Obama gets praise for authorizing action in the face of pointed rifles?

His sissiness is asked repeatedly for authorization to take out the pirates. The situation can be ended at any time using SEAL snipers.

The snipers are WITHIN 20 TO 30 YARDS of the terrorists.

The One says we can only shoot them if the captain’s life is imminent dangers.

The lifeboat is nearing Somali waters and the weather is turning to s&%@.

The Captain of the Bainbridge looks around his bridge and says, “I think the captain’s life is imminent danger.” “Do the rest of you t6hink the captain’s life is imminent danger?”

Unanimous answers to the affirmative.

The Captain contacts the SEAL team leader. “I have determined that the hostage’s life is imminent danger. You have authority to use deadly force.”

“Roger.”

Bang, bang, bang.

You heard it here first.

What frikin U.N Resolution are they braying about that the SEALS broke by killing the 3 pirates and freeing the Capt. Phillips?

The following excerpts are from an AP article posted on foxnews.com:

“Obama said Phillips had courage that was “a model for all Americans” and he was pleased about the rescue, adding that the United States needs help from other countries to deal with the threat of piracy and to hold pirates accountable.”

The most powerful navy in the world needs HELP?? Against pirates?
On down the article:

“Jamac Habeb, a 30-year-old pirate, said that the killing of the three pirates was “a painful experience.”

“This is unfortunate action and our friends should have done more to kill the captain before they were killed. This will be a good lesson for us,” Habeb told the AP from one of Somalia’s piracy hubs, Eyl.

Residents of Harardhere, another port and pirate stronghold, were gathering in the streets after news of the captain’s release, saying they fear pirates may now retaliate against some of the 200 hostages they still hold.”

Ok, Obama, now how are you gonna solve the overall problem? More negotiations?

Germany responds:

“A spokesman for the German anti-piracy operation told the AP that the U.S. did not give any clue as to its plans in regard to the ship captain.”

Could this mean criticism of our Navy’s actions might be forthcoming from the German government? Why am I reminded all of a sudden about Europe’s reaction to the invasion of Iraq?

Here’s the whole article:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514775,00.html

Maybe I’m reading too much into this, time will tell…

Link here.

Uncle Jimbo’s take

I just finished listening to the press conference w/ ADM Gortney about the rescue of Captain Phillips. At the time it happened the USS Bainbridge was towing the lifeboat to calmer waters as the sea state was deteriorating. One of the pirates was on board the Bainbridge as the talks about obtaining Phillip’s release continued. The lifeboat was approx. 25 m behind the Bainbridge when snipers on the fantail observed one of the pirates in the pilot house of the lifeboat pointing an AK-47 at the back of a tied up Phillips and the other two pirates on board were visible (at least shoulders and heads). The standing authority gave them clearance to engage the pirates if the life of the captain was in imminent danger. The on scene commander deemed this to be true and gave the order to fire. All three bad guys were taken out and then a rigid inflatable boat went to the lifeboat to retrieve Phillips.

He stayed out of the way. He authorized the military to do their job, which is to protect American lives by killing the enemy. They had the good judgment and guts to use that authority well. Let the Democrats and their media organs overplay Obama’s role, and then attack that. Otherwise, give credit where it is due, the men in the U.S Navy who made the tough decisions and did the difficult and dangerous work.

…and an American was saved from getting shot up by pirates with AK-47s. Today generated a number of heroes in a happy ending.

Now, it’s absolutely true that President Obama is not one of those heroes. He just gave the order — beginning on Friday according to reports — that if Captain Phillips’ life were in danger and it was possible to take the pirates out the Navy should take action. Which they did. That was just his role as Commander-in-Chief and doesn’t merit any special regard. It was a cautious stance but clearly Phillips life was the main concern as opposed to the pirates’ death.

But I’m kind of at a loss at the reaction here. How, with such great news on a day where y’all are (God willing) surrounded by family and holiness and joy, can so much snark and disdain be sustained? Why was that the first emotion some ran to on this?

God blessed the crew of the Maersk Alabama, Captain Phillips, and the Navy snipers who did their job so spectacularly. I say this all with respect, and I hope that’s clear. Happy Easter all.

Would be nice if this were follows up with a clear announcement that the US Navy will defend the flag from all acts of piracy and an invitation to the shipping companies of the world to reflag their ships and hire US Citizen crews to benefit from that protection. That’s the kind of economic stimulus I would support.

You know… I have conflicting feelings about the death of the Pirates…
I initially celebrated their death…. but wondered if I should really do that as a Christian… I decided I shouldn’t.

Stay with me… It gets better, I promise.

I am totally grateful for the US Navy, and the spared life of the kidnapped Captain.

I think about the mercy of the Lord, and how Jesus shed his blood for everyone. Putting emotion aside, because I’m trained to think, not feel like libs do, The Lord’s mercy was even shown to the Pirates. They had 3 days to turn themselves in. (3 days… the Irony) They had a chance to say “OK. We give up.” Their lives could have been spared. They know this now, as they are burning in Hell, surely wishing they could go back and do things different.

They chose to live “by the sword.” They died “by the sword.” As a Christian, I wish their lives could have been different. But as we are all given free will, they made their choice, and have reaped what they sowed.

Sad. Young men wasting their lives for nothing. Their blood is on their own heads.