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Old 02-22-2011, 11:50 PM
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Based on what?
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Based on what?
Based on his lack of action. This slaughter from the pirates on the four Americans yesterday is the final straw. He needs to be held personally responsable and charged with their death.

We had some of our best military vehicles trailing the boat, including the USS Enterprise along with it's strike groups that has Navy Seal Team 6 members and Coust Guard Law Enforcement and boarding soldiers who were ready to go days ago once they took it captive. It should have been handled that first day. The Seals should have gone on immediately, but Obama wouldn't give the order.

Pirates have announced ANY Americans they capture they WILL kill in retaliation to the recent activities.

Seal Team 6 and Coast Guard Boarding teams that went in today should have gone in two days ago. I guarantee the 4 innocent Americans would still be alive. It would also detour them from taking Americans again in the future knowing were going to automatically board and capture and kill all pirates involved.
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Based on his lack of action. This slaughter from the pirates on the four Americans yesterday is the final straw. He needs to be held personally responsable and charged with their death.
As usual. my issue with this is the media's consistancy (or lack of)...

Anyone remember how Obama was PRAISED early in office because of a rescue from pirates?...

No?...

Then let me refresh...

Analysis: Obama scores win on pirate crisis

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His administration passes its first critical national security test

The U.S. economy is showing only glimmers of life and two costly wars remain in the balance, but President Barack Obama's "no drama" handling of the Indian Ocean hostage crisis proved a big win for his administration in one of its first critical national security tests.

Obama's two quiet backstage decisions to authorize the Defense Department to take necessary action if Capt. Richard Phillips' life was in imminent danger gave a Navy commander the go-ahead to order snipers to fire on the pirates holding the cargo ship captain at gunpoint.

For Obama, the benefits were instantly clear: an American life saved and a major victory notched against an increasingly worrisome scourge of the seas off the Horn of Africa.

Obama's handling of the crisis showed a president who was comfortable in relying on the U.S. military, much as his predecessor, George W. Bush, did.
So if Obama is to get praise based on the military's successful rescue and they point out his "decisions", then where is the same media asking what his "decisions" were THIS TIME and why was it a catostrophic FAILURE?...

If rescuing hostages 2 years ago was great "national security" success, then what do they call THIS situation where no hostages are even alive?...

Consistancy folks...The media doesn't drop the ball...They simply refuse to pick it up...
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Based on his lack of action. This slaughter from the pirates on the four Americans yesterday is the final straw. He needs to be held personally responsable and charged with their death.

Better charge him with the earthquake in New Zealand also

We had some of our best military vehicles trailing the boat, including the USS Enterprise along with it's strike groups that has Navy Seal Team 6 members and Coust Guard Law Enforcement and boarding soldiers who were ready to go days ago once they took it captive. It should have been handled that first day. The Seals should have gone on immediately, but Obama wouldn't give the order.

You really don't have a clue. Just like the people who sailed into those waters


Pirates have announced ANY Americans they capture they WILL kill in retaliation to the recent activities.

Seal Team 6 and Coast Guard Boarding teams that went in today should have gone in two days ago. I guarantee the 4 innocent Americans would still be alive. It would also detour them from taking Americans again in the future knowing were going to automatically board and capture and kill all pirates involved.
You guarantee they would still be alive huh? You are a funny person.
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As usual. my issue with this is the media's consistancy (or lack of)...

Anyone remember how Obama was PRAISED early in office because of a rescue from pirates?...

No?...

Then let me refresh...

Analysis: Obama scores win on pirate crisis

So if Obama is to get praise based on the military's successful rescue and they point out his "decisions", then where is the same media asking what his "decisions" were THIS TIME and why was it a catostrophic FAILURE?...

If rescuing hostages 2 years ago was great "national security" success, then what do they call THIS situation where no hostages are even alive?...

Consistancy folks...The media doesn't drop the ball...They simply refuse to pick it up...
This is ridiculous
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I think they lost the ball long ago
Like so many on the right?
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This is ridiculous
I see you can't stand the truth......
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I see you can't stand the truth......
What truth? How do you measure this stuff. Your scales are already out of whack. I used to say Obama would have to be Jackie Robinson. He would have to do twice as good to be considered half as good. And this sort of stuff proves my point.
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