This from a president who believes the American people can’t be trusted with personal weapons.
With President Obama preoccupied with the pursuit of ideological beliefs — see gun control — the news of a Hellfire missile being “wrongly shipped” to Cuba is certain to leave Americans wondering just who’s minding the store.
And if Obama will soon issue an executive order to close the rocket-show loophole that allowed that to happen, as Twitchy.com sarcastically noted.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that “an inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014,” adding that it was a “loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind.”
An incident that has “confounded” authorities.
Breaking: Missing U.S. Hellfire missile shows up in Cuba, sparking concerns over loss of military technology https://t.co/05vmZEpJs6
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 8, 2016
Cuba still has the Hellfire Captive Air Training Missile, a “dummy missile” used in exercises — it still contained sensitive U.S. weapons technology — and the White House has been trying for more than a year to get the Castro regime to give it back, CNN reported.
If there was a resounding theme on social media, other than utter disbelief, it would be to question just how much of an “accident” the misdirection was. Here’s a sampling of responses from Twitter:
“You little people can’t be trusted with guns,” sneers the President who sent guns to Mexican drug lords, and a Hellfire missile to Cuba.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) January 8, 2016
To CUBA?! How the hell does this even begin to happen?! https://t.co/UuQAxr6rDD
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) January 8, 2016
@MonicaCrowley @dillerwc Like maybe, it was no “accident” at all?
— Rods and Guitars (@rodsandguitars) January 8, 2016
@MonicaCrowley @PoliticalShort @CNBCnow This is why you should never check your luggage. Never know where it’ll end up.
— Dino Yiannopoulos (@CrankyTRex) January 8, 2016
The same Administration that swears it can track refugees & Gitmo terrorists can’t keep track of a missile. https://t.co/0RpHJU0RcV
— Andrea Tantaros (@AndreaTantaros) January 8, 2016
.@AndreaTantaros @WSJ what did they mean to ship there? WasN’T an embargo in place? Cuba a middleman for illegal weapons shipments to ME?
— Mathew S Harrison (@MathewSHarrison) January 9, 2016
. @AndreaTantaros @JoeDanMedia O.ne B.ig A. ss M. istake A. America
— Trumppin (@TrumpUntamed) January 9, 2016
How do you “mistakenly” ship a f***ing missile to Cuba? I’m struggling over the logistics of this. https://t.co/GgpKEetMaj
— Political Math (@politicalmath) January 8, 2016
Who in Cuba did they accidentally ship the missile to? Did some random guy get a “while you were away, we tried to deliver ur missile” note?
— Political Math (@politicalmath) January 8, 2016
@politicalmath it’s not a mistake, it’s espionage
— Zachary Pittman (@ZacPittman) January 8, 2016
@Sean_in_Boston @politicalmath Didn’t hang a left at Albuquerque.
— Megawatt Herb Drench (@mdrache) January 8, 2016
Maybe Obama should be holding a #HellfireControlTownHall instead. https://t.co/1xyzXMuePv
— Robb Allen (@ItsRobbAllen) January 8, 2016
@WSJ @DevlinBarrett If you like your Hellfire missile, you can keep your Hellfire missile.
— Ted Lynch (@Teddlynch) January 8, 2016
Damn NRA. Now look at what you’ve done. https://t.co/P9xjm29AIr
— BT (@back_ttys) January 8, 2016
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