So all the reports of a brave battle are false. Is that what you are saying?

Two of the sailers 'jumped' a pirate in the engine room. One sailer stabbed the pirate in the hand. That same pirate was on the life boat with the captain and surrendered to the destroyer to get medical treatment on the hand. Soon after, the snipers shot the rest of the pirates when an AK 47 gun barrel was seen placed in the captains back ... so the various reports say. By the way they say the destroyer was towing the lifeboat.

I am not saying one way or another. I have no idea what happened, any more than you do. I am saying only what the last report I read indicated, and yes, it said the reports of a brave battle were totally false.

I mean, please, give me a break about the gun pointed at the captain's back. are you telling me that was the first time the captain had a gun pointed at him on the lifeboat?

I wish we could get some honesty. "We had an opportunity to kill, the President gave us the ok to kill, and we, despite pretences of negotiation, killed them."

The differences between the reported versions of the facts are dramatic.

Those are the reports. But it is fact that Americans didn't change the game as Mike suggests -- the French did. You're Americans, blaming the French should be easy!

Relax, Mike. No matter which version of facts you choose to believe in the end, I'm sure you'll be able to conclude that that whomever you choose were cowards and idiots and they did it all wrong.

And that they likely believe the earth is 6,000 years old!

You'd think Mike would be happy to see an instance where people owned guns and had the balls to use them in self-defense.

I want some transparency and honesty, not the bullshit lies we are being fed.