Unbelievable!… 58 Days Later Obama Pledges to Mobilize "Greatest Military in World" to Combat Gulf Oil Spill
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 17, 2010, 12:24 PM
UNBELIEVABLE!
59 Days after the BP oil rig explosion Barack Obama finally pledges to mobilize the military to assist with the worst oil spill and environmental disaster in the nation’s history.
Two vacations, a half dozen parties, and several rounds of golf later, Barack Obama finally committed the US military to assist with the horrible disaster.
It took Barack Obama 2 days to send the US military to Haiti after the deadly earthquake in January. It took him 58 days to send the US military to the Gulf after the worst environmental disaster in American history.
The Hill reported:
President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he is “mobilizing the greatest military in the world” to combat the Gulf oil spill.
In an address to service members in Florida, Obama again pledged to do “whatever it takes for as long as it takes” to deal with the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
“This is an assault on our shores, and we’re going to fight back with everything that we’ve got,” Obama said in remarks in Pensacola, Fla., that conclude his visit to three states on the Gulf Coast.
Obama did not offer any new details on military involvement in cleaning up the spill. The president has already authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard troops to assist in response and recovery efforts, even as the leak continues to pour thousands of gallons into the water every day.
Earlier this week the Obama Administration finally accepted assistance from The Netherlands after their offer nearly two months ago.
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gus commented:
Speeches.
AuntieMadder commented:
What the hell is the military going to do? Shoot the hell out of the oil globs? The last thing we need is Oilbama’s jihadist buddies knowing the coast is clear because our military is distracted with cleaning up hazmat.
Pedro commented:
If there are available, and he is willing to call on, 17,000 national guardsmen to assist with this disaster, then it is willful dereliction that he has not sent any national guardsmen to the border states to deal with a different disaster.
Warthog commented:
Yes, let’s mobilize the military to deal with this. After all, guided missle destroyers are the first tool one uses for cleaning up oil spills. In a similar vein, I use my shotgun to clean up nasty wine stains from my carpet.
(And boy are my downstairs neighbors mad…)
down with dems commented:
How about mobilizing the military for something it’s supposed to do, like protect our homeland. Send them to guard our borders, with orders to shoot to kill.
How about buying some oil boom, Obama? That will do a whole lot more good than sending the military to fight an oil spill. The oil spill is not an attack, it is not a siege, it is an accident, and you don’t fight it, you stop it and you clean it.
Valerie commented:
This administration is demonstrating a truly a full-blown Russian-quality response to a disaster:
exacerbate it, blame everybody else, use it as an excuse for power grabs. The Russians are the last people we want to imitate.
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
Gee, and I thought the Communist Organizer would mobilize ACORN to help.
I forgot; ACORN only mobilizes to organize brothels.
neomom commented:
Hey Idiot, their job is to kill people and break things, not to clean up oil. If I was a marine sniper and my CIC said go clean oil I would not want to continue on my career path. We have several prisons in the South. Throw a couple bucks at their illegitimate children if they will clean up oil. Give them candy and maybe some doritos. I’m sure they would be happy to leave the cell. Unless you want to shoot a nuke at it from a Sub or use a deep sea diving bell or other very specific skills that may work, keep they Military out of it. Did you Know the Navy went 7 miles down to the marianas trench? They got skills. Civillians screwed it up, Civillians can fix it.
B. H. Oilsammunist commented:
Generalisimo Oilbama to the rescue!
Just_Saying commented:
Where’s Obummer’s infamous mop he’s always talking about?
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Taxpayer1234 commented:
Obooby gives new meaning to the adage “a day late and a dollar short”.
bill-tb commented:
It’s a wahhhh, don’t you know, we need a wahhh to declare martial law.
This is just dumbo playing …. meanwhile the skimmers aren’t skimming, the fire booms aren’t burning, the MMS isn’t testifying and our fearless dear reader is trying to find something else to read next.
Everybody knows the best way to prevent damage from an offshore well blowout is to prevent the poil from reaching shore. I think Odumbo wants the oily beaches and dead oil covered birds to try and peddle his global warming lies.
It is a requirement of the drilling company to get every drill procedure approved before the step can be taken — Since the MMS regulators knew of, and approve every step of the process, why hasn’t the MMS people been on the Congressional griddle. In fact, why hasn’t Fannie and Freddie been grilled to see why they approved home loans to unqualified people.
And yes the MMS approved of the BP well design, single casing and all. And yes, the MMS approved every step BP took …
So where is the MMS testimony in this Wahhh.
seven commented:
How about buying some boom? We can always buy sand and ship it from the Sahara to cover our dirty beaches.
OxyCon commented:
Obama on Tuesday said he is “mobilizing the greatest military in the world” to combat the Gulf oil spill.
“This is an assault on our shores, and we’re going to fight back with everything that we’ve got,” Obama said.
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Meanwhile, along our southern border with Mexico……..
What’s worse for our country…tar balls on our beaches or violent Mexican drug gangs; illegal immigrants using government resources and taxpayer dollars; people from terrorist countries crossing our southern border?
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wanumba commented:
The Democrats want out of Afghanistan, and IN to a Universal DRAFT.
ANYTHING is used as an excuse to haul standard institutions off their normal mandates to twist them into Leftie machines. The Left wants to change the US military’s incredibly successful national defense strategy off what it has been since President Jefferson implemented it in 1801 during the first Barbary War – the Tripolian War.
The most successful US national defense strategy has been to PROJECT the US military TO the SOURCE of the conflict, moving our military OUT to the fight so the conflict and the destruction of raw warfare never advances to our shores.
Torquing the mandate of ANY military off what it is designed to do best, fighting, is self-destructive to a nation. Messing with the military’s mandate means our professional soldiers will quit in disgust so the Dems will have their excuse for a DRAFT, which Hillary CLinton said recently was to make military service so abhorrent that Americans will not want to get involved in ANY conflicts whatsoever. With that admission, the politicalized Left draft boards will deliberately assign Britney the cheerleader to combat duty, and Mac the beef to forestry park clean-up. Britney will get killed, Mac will be drunk most of the time from boredom.
The Democrats want a universal male-female DRAFT, for three stated purposes:
1) Military
2) national service
3) any other purpose
THat’s a big category no. 3
Paul_______ commented:
He should’ve sent unarmed border patrol agents to rescue America from the oil spill as he did recently to “protect” the US-Mexican borders. I say it’s time to disarm the US military and arm it with cotton candy sticks. Yeah baby! He was given the Nobel peace prize to do just that.
Militant Conservative commented:
Now I know some more. The Jones treaty states that IF America is to receive foreign countries aid the people aiding us MUST be UNIONS. To date Obama is the ONLY president that has stuck to the letter of the law. All the rest waived this requirement to help America instead of his UNION buddies. Obama you sicken me. Impeachment is well deserved. prick.
Jerry Haberer commented:
I agree with Pedro – and maybe some others who have expressed similar views. Get the troops to the border states to deal with the criminals and other illegals crossing our borders with Mexico.
I spend at least 7 months in Arizona each year, and I support what they are trying to do there – despite the lame nonsense coming from the Obama Administration …..
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