http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041409/content/01125110.guest.htmlYou know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas.
They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama. David "Rodham" Gergen was discussing the ramifications of this last night. Let's go to sound bite eight. We'll use number eight. He was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night. Cooper said, "Does Obama need to move forward in this --" by the way, the Somali merchant marine organizers have hijacked four more ships today, four more ships have been hijacked.
It was three earlier today. They've hijacked an additional one now for a total of four today. And, of course, we predicted this yesterday. While bestowing upon Obama all the brilliance and credit he deserved for a brilliant operation, we were very much concerned here that this kind of action against three young teenagers, black Muslim teenagers on the high seas could anger the pirates, merchant marine organizers even more and heighten and increase hijack activity. The left itself warned us of this in Iraq, they said all we're doing is creating more terrorists. So apparently we've created more hijackings on the high seas, in the Gulf of Aden by teenaged black Muslims, the merchant marine organizers.
Some will argue that Limbaugh is simply mocking the Left, but it seems to me he just can't stomach the fact that America won, despite all his predictions that it would lose because Obama was president. Thus he tries to compare this situation to the illegal invasion of Iraq. The major differences between this incident and Iraq are:
1) This was legal.
2) It was successful.
3) It was damned cheap.
4) No Americans were killed or wounded.
5) Everyone in the world (except Somalia) is glad we did it.
6) No one was tortured, kidnapped, murdered or held without trial. Three men certainly died, but they died in the commission of piracy on the high seas while threatening harm to an innocent civilian.
7) No violations of the Constitution occurred.
8) The job wasn't outsourced to Blackwater.
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