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JEDIYoda

Lifer
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Originally posted by: piasabird
Some idiots belonging to NATO forces caught Pirates trying to sieze a vessel and then set the pirates free. Are these people stupid? Dont they get that the pirates will just try again? With leadership like this, we will get nothing but more muslim terrorists (Pirates).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/...tack.foiled/index.html

Where is OBumma while all this is going on?

Where is the Skirt Secretary of Airhead State?

Are yoiu stoopid or what???
Wrong topic to try to make into a politically ignorant rant....

What part of the words NO JURISDICTION do you not understand??

This has nothing to do with leadership at all.
This has to do with who has jurisdiction??

Ok lets call a spade a spade -- the right wing strategy here on P&N. Find a completely random issue, then find a way to blame it on Obama.



 

cwjerome

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Originally posted by: Sacrilege
Originally posted by: magomago
Originally posted by: Sacrilege
Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Originally posted by: Sacrilege
Pirates are now Muslim terrorists. Next gays will be Muslim terrorists. Then atheists, liberals, artists, blacks, anyone the right hates.... Enough with this childish bullshit.

You are wrong.

Explain.... are the Somali pirates intending to go out on nautical Jihad, against the infidel navies of the world, and spread a maritime Islamic Caliphate???

Is........he being serious?

Are you questioning my claim, and the analysis of the US Navy, that the pirates are not linked to Muslim terror organizations?

These pirates are not linked to any Muslim terror organizations. But that doesn't mean people who analyze these sorts of things should just disregard the related issues.

Is it reasonable to expect a 9/11-style attack from people who are motivated by economics? Destroying an oil platform or sinking a ship in a canal (or something similar) could be used as back up for a future threat... "we did it before, we'll do it again..."

Or, Islamic extremists could study pirate methodology to launch seaborne attacks on infrastructure or other high value/symbolic targets. The similarities with 9/11 are there... the relative simplicity and audacity of the attack. Has the threat landscape changed again?

These days people don't assume that airline pirates are rational actors who value self preservation and who have a price. Considering the comments made recently by the Somalis, I hope they will stop doing that with ship piracy soon, before all of the potential terrible consequences are realized. Kill them outright.

Yes the 2nd and 3rd order of effects from this will have to be dealt with but continuing a "light" course of action vs piracy will certainly result in far worse scenarios.

In any case, I don't know of anyone with authority or expertise claiming the Somali pirates are Jihadists, yet the situation needs to be studies with all cards on the table.
 

IronWing

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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: piasabird

Where is the Skirt Secretary of Airhead State?

Your misogyny is noted. The rest of your post was just plain stupid.
As is your fake outrage... or have you missed every Sarah Palin thread we have ever had?

Show me one of those threads that is an attack on Palin's gender.
 

JEDIYoda

Lifer
Jul 13, 2005
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Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: piasabird

Where is the Skirt Secretary of Airhead State?

Your misogyny is noted. The rest of your post was just plain stupid.
As is your fake outrage... or have you missed every Sarah Palin thread we have ever had?

Show me one of those threads that is an attack on Palin's gender.

rumor has it that Palin has no gender....
 

Mani

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Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Ok lets call a spade a spade -- the right wing strategy here on P&N. Find a completely random issue, then find a way to blame it on Obama.

Hey dude, if you're going to steal a quote from me, at least credit the source.
 

Firebot

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Jul 10, 2005
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Originally posted by: piasabird
Some idiots belonging to NATO forces caught Pirates trying to sieze a vessel and then set the pirates free. Are these people stupid? Dont they get that the pirates will just try again? With leadership like this, we will get nothing but more muslim terrorists (Pirates).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/...tack.foiled/index.html

Where is OBumma while all this is going on?

Where is the Skirt Secretary of Airhead State?

You are something special.
 

Jaskalas

Lifer
Jun 23, 2004
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Originally posted by: palehorse
Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Pirates should not be captured, they should be killed on sight.

This
+1 :thumbsup:

Btw, the OP is ridiculous...

+2 :thumbsup:

Better to have less pirates in the world than to fuel their attacks via additional manpower.
 

ericlp

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We should have sent them to gitmo and waterboarded them 500 times... or till they died, that seems to be the american way.
 

Robor

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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: piasabird

Where is the Skirt Secretary of Airhead State?

Your misogyny is noted. The rest of your post was just plain stupid.
As is your fake outrage... or have you missed every Sarah Palin thread we have ever had?

Of all people to point out faux outrage. :laugh:

Since when was Palin's gender a topic? From what I remember it was her qualifications (lack of).
 

Genx87

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Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Hell they should be made to walk the plank after being keel hauled.

I would have released them but they would have had to swim back.

Wouldn't have worked. Those guys have ships lining the costs of Somolia. They would have just radioed in some help.

Not if you tie an anchor to their feet.
 

Fear No Evil

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Originally posted by: ericlp
We should have sent them to gitmo and waterboarded them 500 times... or till they died, that seems to be the american way.

Or we could have apologized to them, and given them money. THAT seems to be the Obama way lately.
 

nobodyknows

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Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: Superrock
If pirates attacked an American vessel we could charge them in American courts. Why can't Norwegian government do the same?

Depends on who caught them, Norwegians did not catch these pirates.

Why couldn't they have been held long enough to be released to Norway? Unless Norway didn't want them?

In any case, "catch and release" is a waste of time and effort.
 

brandonbull

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Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Hell they should be made to walk the plank after being keel hauled.

I would have released them but they would have had to swim back.

Wouldn't have worked. Those guys have ships lining the costs of Somolia. They would have just radioed in some help.

I guess they can use their hidden, water proof CB.

"Breaker Breaker 1 9. Any of you Somali pirates got your ears on? This is the jihad ducky and I got some infidel Smokeys at my backdoor."

 

brandonbull

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Originally posted by: ericlp
We should have sent them to gitmo and waterboarded them 500 times... or till they died, that seems to be the american way.

Maybe we can bring them to the US, give them free money, education, food, and then let them go?
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: ericlp
We should have sent them to gitmo and waterboarded them 500 times... or till they died, that seems to be the american way.

Or we could have apologized to them, and given them money. THAT seems to be the Obama way lately.
No it doesn't, in fact Obama's way lately has been a Headshot.
 

Jaskalas

Lifer
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Originally posted by: ericlp
We should have sent them to gitmo and waterboarded them 500 times... or till they died, that seems to be the american way.

Waste of resources when a bullet will do the trick.
 

marincounty

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Originally posted by: brandonbull
Originally posted by: ericlp
We should have sent them to gitmo and waterboarded them 500 times... or till they died, that seems to be the american way.

Maybe we can bring them to the US, give them free money, education, food, and then let them go?

Maybe we can carpet bomb them, invade Kenya, give them free money, education and food, then spend billions on contractors to shoddily rebuild their infrastructure? Mission Accomplished!