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2011-10-03 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by 2011-10-03 10:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Interesting. The author uses an example of the Lincoln and the civil ear era.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-10-03 12:02|| 2011-10-03 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I got far more bunched up about Waco and Ruby Ridge.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-10-03 13:34|| 2011-10-03 13:34|| Front Page Top

#3 We didn't snuff the US citizen al-Awlaki, we snuffed the Yemeni citizen al-Awlaki. The US guy was collateral damage.
And if we'd captured him and brought him here for trial, it would be called kidnapping, and we'd have to prosecute ourselves for that instead of for murder.
And whatever happened to the old 'Wanted, Dead or Alive' posters we used to see on the old westerns? We had a bounty on bin Laden - did we have one on al-Awlaki? We should, and we should pay the units responsible for their demise, and they should have a great big party and invite all their friends. Open bar, top shelf.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-03 13:39|| 2011-10-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Traitors can be killed, I'm not sure we need a trial when the traiter is openly fighting alongside the enemy and has declared such.

Assassination should be our primary way of waging war against dictatorships. We have a process of orderly replacement when a leader dies. Dictatorships do not. Besides it avoids blowing up infrastructure adn killing a population that more often than not can be manipulated into fighting against their best interests because they are uneducated and religiously intolerant and untrusting.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-03 14:33|| 2011-10-03 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5 This is war not a law enforcement project. See Senate Joint Resolution 23 from 2001. Note well, para 2(b) which invokes the War Powers Resolution, not the National Emergency Act, not the National Security Act, but the War Powers Resolution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-03 16:41|| 2011-10-03 16:41|| Front Page Top

#6 To me the asshole was an immediate threat to the life of each and every single American in the USA and abroad - that alone makes him a legitimate target to be taken out.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-10-03 17:40|| 2011-10-03 17:40|| Front Page Top

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