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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11172)	4/12/2009 8:00:42 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 103300

"Well, why wouldn't he? This is not rocket science, but why did he take six days to give the go ahead?" ____________ I am sure there are some on this board who would find fault with whatever the President did. If he didn't give the order, he was a coward. If he gave the order and it had turned out badly with the captain killed, it was a hotheaded foolish move. If he waited until intelligence from his military advisors confirmed that the lifeboat was far enough from the Somali coast to minimize danger of reinforcement or other contingencies...(which is what Fox News is reporting) then he acted too slowly. No good deed will go unpunished. It's tough being President.Remember when poor President Bush had the Chinese grabbing an intelligence plane, with crew and data on board? It's tough being the guy having to make the decisions. telegraph.co.uk

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11172)	4/12/2009 9:45:22 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Hi GZ; Re "take six days" I'm guessing that the DoD didn't have a really really clean shot until the moronic pirates let the life raft be tied up to the stern of a destroyer with 82 feet of line. I can guess why the one who went aboard the DD to negotiate didn't want to go back with his buddies. Life in prison is better than what a sniper can do to you at under 100 feet. Crap, at that range kids with BB guns can put your eye out. If I had to make a guess, they could have done the same thing the first time the prisoner went for a swim. But they didn't because the chain of command couldn't release a "fire" order in time. The next time, the chain of command learned its lesson and gave orders to "use your judgement." This is a nice learning experience for a guy who couldn't have known much about how to control military situations happening halfway around the globe; let the local authority make the decisions and ignore it. -- Carl