Some begin to question Obama's OK'ing of the pirate shoot

Let's first go to BlackFive:

I now have multiple confirmations saying that the initial set of rules that Obama put on the Navy forbid any active attempts to rescue the hostage and only after they requested he reinstate their authority to act if the hostage was in imminent danger did he do so.

And then on to Mudville Gazette:

I actually wrote the Imminent Danger post last night, finished it rather late and decided to post it this AM. I tweaked it a bit on waking and published, but have since found two additional bits of data that add much to the discussion.

To those in a moment, first, when I watched the press conference, what stood out in my mind were the repeated references to these three points:

1. The hostage was in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him

2. The hostage was in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him, and

3. The hostage was in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him.

Add to that the number of times Admiral Gortney mentioned that Captain Phillips was in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him and I couldn't help but notice that it was awfully important to him to make sure that we knew that Captain Phillips was in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him in case somehow someone overlooked the fact that Captain Phillips was in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him. (At his back even, where he himself couldn't even see it!)

As noted in the post I wrote about Captain Phillips in imminent danger with an AK47 pointed at him, it seems to me Captain Phillips was in imminent danger from the moment armed pirates boarded his ship - but I'm no expert on the fine points of law of the sea.

Which brings us to the two additional items found today.

Do go read all of Greyhawk's post and be enlightened.

Obama, unsurprisingly, is being made out to be someone he isn't.

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[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

Too bad 90% of America won't or don't care to understand everything involved.