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The Navy Seals killed three of B.Hussein Osama’s muslim brothers.

Jerricho68 on April 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM

I know you changed his last name to osama to disguise your bs. Too bad you are losing more of us each time you post this petty nonsense. Soon you will have no audience at all. The Navy seals killed 3 pirates to save the life of a hostage.

You’re a government employee?

blink on April 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Given the most recent news, I would guess they are in the Department of Homeland Security.

Doctor Zero on April 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM
A President who ordered all military weapons replaced with balsa-wood duplicates,

Sort of like the Army training with broom handles for rifles prior to WW2.

Doctor Zero on April 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM

I… I think I love you, man.

That was beautiful.

Continue the good work then, my government job depends on you continuing to pay your taxes like a good little citizen …

Monkei on April 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM

I hope you’re on your lunch hour and posting from you personal computer or you’re just like other liberals…stealing from people who work for a living. You’re a bigger POS than I gave you credit for!

1500!!!

There is a baseball analogy to the pirate story.
YANKS BEAT PIRATES 3-0
kanda on April 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM

“Additional Pirate added to the long-term DL”

At 2900 feet per second.

You’re a government employee?

blink on April 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Think about it. The monkey isn’t only living on your dime, he/she is probably posting on your dime.

kanda on April 13, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Thank you for posting that, Kanda… an unsurprising spin that doesn’t hold up terribly well under scrutiny.

WASHINGTON – 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.

Nice inclusion of an irrelevant comment about the economy. Does anyone remember the AP giving Bush credit for scoring “big wins for his administration” after the Army or Marines jacked up terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, even when they bagged one of the big fish? Does anyone feel like three dead Somali pirates really eases the pain of the tremendous amount of wealth destroyed in the economy since Obama became president? Man, if some Army snipers manage to blow al-Zawahiri away while Obama’s sitting in the Oval Office, I won’t care if the Dow never gets over 9000 again!

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.

Yes, that’s a major victory all right. Listen up, Somali pirate chiefs: if you grab some American hostages, and put their lives in imminent danger, Obama will authorize the Navy to blow you away after four or five days. Meanwhile, he’ll spend his time whining that you’re distracting him from his primary job, which is throwing tomorrow’s money at today’s problems. He will also watch you very closely on CNN, so be careful when you look into those news cameras – the Messiah could be looking right back at you.

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.

We’re lavishing praise on presidents because they’re comfortable relying on the military now? Bill Clinton was comfortable in relying on the military, too – he just didn’t give them the armor they needed to stay alive while he was comfortably relying on them. Jimmy Carter was comfortable sending brave men to die in a sandstorm while Iran’s thugs laughed at him. What would be an example of a President who didn’t deserve this meaningless praise? A President who hid under the table when the Joint Chiefs walked into the room? A President who ordered all military weapons replaced with balsa-wood duplicates, because he was afraid to let them have all that firepower?

But it also showed a new commander in chief who was willing to use all the tools at his disposal, bringing in federal law enforcement officials to handle the judicial elements of the crisis.

It was like a two-hour commercial-free special episode of CSI meets NCIS! It may have escaped the AP writer that the only “tool at his disposal” that made ANY difference in resolving the crisis was a team of Navy sharpshooters. I doubt any of them had a law degree. If any of them DOES have a law degree, and he can shoot like that, we should make HIM president, immediately.

The rescue appeared to vindicate Obama’s muted but determined handling of the incident. What won’t be known for some time is whether Obama will benefit politically.

That’s the most ridiculous line of the article. If Obama had dressed in a chicken costume and run around in circles for four days crying like a baby, then tearfully sobbed his consent to letting the Navy marksmen take their shot before using his tears to write “America is doomed” a thousand times on the White House wall, the exact same outcome would have been achieved. Would the heroic accuracy of those Navy shooters have “vindicated Obama’s strategy” then?

Something tells me the AP already has some ideas about whether this will “benefit Obama politically,” and will be sharing them with us very soon.

communism? you mean as with Cuba or North Korea? Hey, how is their economies doing? communism, you still in some kind of Vietnam time warp? Socialism and communism is not the same thing, but then again maybe it is. Was it communism or socialism that built the US interstate system and still maintains it?

Monkei on April 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM

It is a simple question, which you did not answer.
The interstate highway was the government doing what the constitution allows.

KOS has a hot piece out that the captain was guilty of grandstanding and caused this incident. :)

AnninCA on April 13, 2009 at 12:34 PM

Damn they must have checked out the captains voting record or just made the assumption when they heard he worked and paid for his own way through college by driving a taxi.

WASHINGTON – 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.

Will Obama benefit politically?
But it also showed a new commander in chief who was willing to use all the tools at his disposal, bringing in federal law enforcement officials to handle the judicial elements of the crisis.

The rescue appeared to vindicate Obama’s muted but determined handling of the incident. What won’t be known for some time is whether Obama will benefit politically.

Continue the good work then, my government job depends on you continuing to pay your taxes like a good little citizen …

Monkei on April 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM

Should have known.

this headline

YANKS BEAT PIRATES 3-0

Continue the good work then, my government job depends on you continuing to pay your taxes like a good little citizen …

Monkei on April 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM

Bloodsuckers, er, leeches, are indignant.