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Skriven 2009-04-13 18:30:53 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Pirates
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Notice things went right for Obama, yet what are the right-wingers
saying?

Limbaugh blames Obama for the pirates' attacks, and compares the pirates
to democrats and their supporters.

Fox (har har) "news" and their morons are more interested in that big
"tea party" they are throwing on Wednesday.

Right-wingers who hit 'President Pantywaist' have egg on their faces
after U.S. forces killed pirates

By David Neiwert Monday Apr 13, 2009 12:00pm

Before yesterday's remarkable success story on the high seas off the
coast of Somalia, the right-wing yammerers were calling Obama "President
Pantywaist". One of these blogs had the following classic line:

Navy SEALs are certainly no pantywaists, but unfortunately their
commander-in-chief is.

http://tinyurl.com/cogrg6

Fox News, as you can see in the video above, was littered with similar
yammering.

Now the best part: It turns out that "President Pantywaist" overturned
George W. Bush's timid dithering on the issue last year in unleashing
those Navy SEALs:

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.

You see, back last November, George W. Bush punted on the matter:

U.S. President George W. Bush has been briefed about increasing attacks
by Somali pirates off east Africa, and the United States is consulting
with other U.N. Security Council members on ways to combat the threat,
the White House said on Wednesday.

Calling it a "a very complicated issue," White House spokeswoman Dana
Perino gave no hint of what, if any, action the United States might take
following the hijacking earlier this week of a Saudi supertanker with a
$100 million oil cargo.

Obama signed the order giving the Navy the go-ahead to take these people
out when they had the opportunity in February.

But the mighty armchair generals of the right will never acknowledge
this, of course.

(c)2009 Crooks And Liars

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