U.S. Navy SEALs Rescue Pirates Hostages

[ProSense]

U.S. Navy SEALs Rescue Pirates Hostages

U.S. Navy SEALs have rescued an American and a Danish hostage from Somali pirates after they had been held for months. The same SEAL team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan carried out this raid, the AP reports.

“This successful hostage rescue, undertaken in a hostile environment, is a testament to the superb skills of courageous service members who risked their lives to save others,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement. “I applaud their efforts, and I am pleased that Ms. Buchanan and Mr. Thisted were not harmed during the operation. This mission demonstrates our military’s commitment to the safety of our fellow citizens wherever they may be around the world.”

President Obama seemed to refer to the raid ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, telling Panetta, “Good job tonight.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4673

[ananda]

1. That's pretty cool!

nt

[MinervaX]

2. Using the military as a prop

[ProSense]

4. Referring

"Using the military as a prop"

...to saving lives as "a prop"?

Are you upset they succeeded?

[MinervaX]

5. I'm saying that you are using the military as a prop

as did Obama. The only reason you posted this was because it mentioned Obama.

[ProSense]

7. And

"I'm saying that you are using the military as a prop as did Obama. The only reason you posted this was because it mentioned Obama."

...I saying you can't handle the news that this mission succeeded.

[Ellipsis]

25. pffft.

Leveraging the acquired wisdom of few days on DU, who are you to throw that comment out there?

[Swede]

28. I like your new sockpocket name.

Welcome back!

[zappaman]

56. I think you mean "goodbye"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=279818

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Don't worry, Prosense

It's just a matter of time before they find some weirdo way to twist this into a negative.

The flustered responses here simply indicate that they haven't figured that way out yet.

[FarLeftFist]

37. OMG a post that mentions Obama on a site called Democratic Underground! Get over yourself.

Ever had a family member captured by pirates? No? Shhhh.

[MineralMan]

46. No need.

That poster has been handed her hat and shown the door.

[demtenjeep]

52. what a load of shit. If he were using it as a prop, he would have pulled a McDumbshit W and bragged

about it last night

[zabriskie point]

55. Riiight...This is real and the timing just HAPPENS to occur after the SOTU?

And one of the "victims" "saved" was named Jessica, too!

[pinboy3niner]

62. Enjoy your stay :)

I'd welcome you to DU, but but I suspect you'll disappear before I get the words out.

Bye-bye.

[zabriskie point]

64. Laugh all you want. It's better than crying.

I have your number.

[SunsetDreams]

66. and I yours

[zabriskie point]

69. oOOO...How impressive!

Yay team. Now back to masturbation.

[FarLeftFist]

70. Back so soon Minerva?

[FarLeftFist]

87. Talk dirty to me.

[pinboy3niner]

80. And you'll never get why I have better things to do than TROLL

What you are doing is pathetic. I'd add a smiley, but I'm sorry--there's no smiley sad enough for you.

[pinboy3niner]

89. You have my number?

Call me sometime...so I can call you a FUCKING TROLL to your face.

[Botany]

9. Please

President Barack Obama was overheard congratulating Defence Secretary Leon Panetta,
apparently for the success of the rescue operation, as Obama entered the House of
Representatives chamber last night to give his annual State of the Union speech.

'Leon. Good job tonight. Good job tonight,' Obama said. He did not mention the rescue
during his speech.

[MinervaX]

11. and yet all the news outlets are reporting on this today.

Go figure. Read up on public relations and propaganda.

[pinboy3niner]

14. Yeah. A dramatic commando rescue of a U.S. citizen held 3 months by pirates isn't news.

If propagandists weren't pushing it, the media would never consider it as news or anything worth reporting at all.

[Botany]

15. News outlets are reporting the news?

I'm shocked

[DevonRex]

40. WTF? Just let the hostages die so people like YOU

Won't say it's propaganda? No fucking way. I'm sure their families are pretty damned happy today.

[MineralMan]

42. That poster is no longer with us.

[DevonRex]

49. I just saw that.

[pinboy3niner]

50. Gotta hand it to our admins

They are definitely on the ball.

[SunsetDreams]

63. I wouldn't be so sure

*hint*

[MineralMan]

68. Well, you're probably right, I suppose.

Never mind. One down, as many to go as are needed.

[zabriskie point]

57. Right on, sister! And what in BLOODY HELL

are we doing in Somalia in the first fucking place?! But all the 'bots are just here cheering. If it had been Dubya, it would be sooo evil but now? ALL GOOD!

[SunsetDreams]

61. I never talk to myself

[zabriskie point]

65. Not me, dearie.

More people than you know are totally onto what is going down. Live in dreamland.

[FarLeftFist]

72. Yeah it is. Same IP address.

[zabriskie point]

75. Bullfucking shit! It's not the same IP address so it just goes to show that you are a liar.

Not surprised, though, since you willingly believe these lies

[SunsetDreams]

76. !

Unintentional DUZY!

[FarLeftFist]

85. I just played a game of reverse psychology and you just lost.

[zappaman]

91. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Too funny!

[Robb]

96. OMG

[SidDithers]

103. LOL. You just got...

Sid

[Pirate Smile]

12. Using the military to rescue a hostage whose health was failing.

I'm always amazed how some people can turn ANYTHING into a negative where President Obama is concerned.

[MinervaX]

13. Good thing he got sick right around the SOTU

otherwise he might not have been rescued.

[Botany]

16. If the SOTU was such a big point how come the President didn't mention the rescue in his SOTU?

[MinervaX]

17. But he did. And you posted about it.

[Botany]

31. He* did not mention the rescue during his speech.

What part of this do you not get?


* President Obama

BTW They (the SEALs) acted when they did not because of the SOTU but because
we had "actionable intelligence" as to the exact location of the hostages.

[Jennicut]

35. He didn't say a thing last night other then to say thanks to Leon Panetta.

And no one in the media last night knew what he was talking about. Did you even watch the SOTU last night?

[Hugabear]

48. The anti-Obama troll has been TS'd

And rightly so.

[Botany]

51. I could smell the Rove money all over him/her

n/t

[zappaman]

59. It's really gotten out of hand

I'm sure he will be back...

[ProSense]

18. So

"Good thing he got sick right around the SOTU"

...the hostage was in on it and faked being sick?

[Swede]

24. The pirates gladly gave their lives for Obama's propaganda machine.

It's all to pump Obama's tires.

[Pirate Smile]

29. It is a woman. I guess you haven't paid attention to the details.

[MineralMan]

19. No. Using the military to rescue people.

Nice try, though, to turn a positive into a negative. Fail, but you did try, so I'll give you that.

[MinervaX]

20. Fail?

2004 called, they want their internet meme back.

[SunsetDreams]

22. Ok you are not succeeding

in your effort to convince that this operation to rescue an American Citizen was a prop.

[pinboy3niner]

23. You're hijacking this thread

Questioning the motives of the poster doesn't wash when the substance of the OP is legitimate and significant news. And the claim that, substantively, this is not newsworthy, is ludicrous.

It's not the motives of the OP poster that are questionable...

[yodermon]

26. I've read all your posts on this thread. What the fuck is your problem? n/t

[MineralMan]

27. Yes. Fail.

You dropped into this thread to attempt to make a negative out of a positive thing. You can't do that, because there is no negative to this hostage rescue. None at all. You may want to choose your stories a little better. This one can't be turned to a negative.

[Ellipsis]

30. Time to break out the mayo again.

[SunsetDreams]

21. Fail. He used the Navy Seals to rescue an American Citizen

who was kidnapped and held captive. I am happy for their families that they are back home.

[pinboy3niner]

39. Your premise has been debunked 10 ways to Sunday

What else ya got?

[DevonRex]

43. The stuff you've said in this thread is

disgusting. It's what freepers would say and probably are. It's what anyone who absolutely HATES Obama would say.

Now, since you're on DU, I assume you don't hate the democratic president. And I'm assuming you'll vote for Obama. So I thought I'd give you a little heads up about the way you're coming across so you can make appropriate adjustments. You know, one Dem to another, reaching out to help.

[pinboy3niner]

53. Our "friend" was certainly Not an Obama voter

That was a fucking troll who disparaged our Dem President in multiple threads.

Our blessed admins sorted out the problem--and GOOD RIDDANCE!

[DevonRex]

67. And it may have

just come back, too.

[pinboy3niner]

92. 'Fraid so

No sweat. Admins will get around to it.

[zappaman]

93. Done

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=280249

[pinboy3niner]

94. Thanks for the good news

In solidarity with the REAL DUers.

Love & Peace,
pinboy3niner

[DevonRex]

95. Our MIRT is fantastic.

When a person is TSed it shows who did it and why. I just found that out when I clicked its transparency tab. So cool.

[DevonRex]

45. Ding dong Minerva. Ding fucking dong.

[pinboy3niner]

71. Shill/Complete idiot

Yes. You are both.

[FarLeftFist]

74. Yeah, totally fabricated. Why don't you call Jessica Buchanan yourself then?

[zabriskie point]

79. Or Jessica Lynch, until she admitted that they made it all up.

That's the plan.

[FarLeftFist]

88. Buchanan admitted it was made up?

Or just mad because Obama can get the job done and Bush had to lie and distort?

[MineralMan]

77. Here...

[DevonRex]

83. Dear heart.

I won't respond in kind. Do have a nice life.

[Renew Deal]

86. Yup, no surprise

[sufrommich]

3. Very cool. Those SEALs guys are incredible. nt

[CTyankee]

6. my late mother, a democrat, had fine political instinct on such things as this:

She would have said "Nothing succeeds like success!"

[deaniac21]

32. Wish they could rescue the Pirates

in Pittsburgh.

[pinboy3niner]

33. Wish they could rescue this thread from the hijacker

Where are the SEALs when you really need them?

[alcibiades_mystery]

41. ROFL...perfect!

[pinboy3niner]

54. Thanks

I messaged the admins on this one. It was certainly over the top, and beyond what a jury could be expected to deal with. AND it involved multiple threads. FUCKIN' TROLL!

[Scurrilous]

47. LOL

Navy Seals?

I'd settle for Chuck Norris at this point.



And in light of this, I am saying this in an ironic way.

[zabriskie point]

60. Ah...I dunno...

Probably meeting for another briefing by the CIA

[FarLeftFist]

90. Just like the movie you are one of the most extraordinary disasters in modern history.

[MineralMan]

97. That made me think of that movie again.

Very puzzling film, but then it was Antonioni, after all. I watched it twice. Still weird.

I looked up the actress from the film, Daria Halprin. She made one other movie after that one, then became a psychologist and dance therapist. Very interesting. I love it when someone makes me go hunting for obscure stuff like that.

[zappaman]

98. Good soundtrack though.. nt

[MineralMan]

99. Yes. Somewhere I have the vinyl of that.

All my vinyl is in boxes for now.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

34. He's such an "appeaser"!

Oh, wait a minute.

[Saving Hawaii]

36. "The same SEAL team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan carried out this raid"

There is no SEAL Team 6.

[ManiacJoe]

104. Sure there is. That team specializes in counter terrorism work.

It happened to be the third team created. 3, 4, and 5 were back filled later. They are up to what, 8 now?

[pinboy3niner]

38. So has the troll been TS'd yet, or what? nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

44. Sock puppet troll has bitten the dust

She wasn't very creative this time around, that's for sure.

It's more pathetic that she can't seem to stay away.

A prime victim of Obama derangement syndrome.

[MineralMan]

81. I saw that movie already.

A little hard to figure out, it was, but I finally got it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

84. But you were banned as MinervaX

Which makes your posts as "zabriskie point" a violation of our community's terms of service.

Why don't you go away and stop embarrassing yourself. Your conduct here is pathetic and ugly.

[Renew Deal]

82. U.S. Navy SEALs Rescue Pirates!!!

Wait till the republicans find out!

[Puzzledtraveller]

100. Sponsored by .......

[DevonRex]

101. What do you mean?

[joshcryer]

102. Props to pinboy3niner CRUSHING the trolls here.

Got at least 3-4 DUzy's in this thread alone.

[pinboy3niner]

105. Thanks, Josh, but I wasn't the only one

Plenty of DUers stepped up on this one to deal with 2 trolls who disrupted poorly. Very, very poorly. They sure didn't send their A team, did they?