Forum
Scary...
|
deadcode wrote
at 12:17 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005
How do liberals respond to Obama setting this precedent? The US government now can place Americans on an assassination list without due process of law (or potentially any evidence at all considering the panel meets in secret). It has now been used to assassinate Anwar al-Awlaki; an American citizen. His crime was a speech / thought crime. He edited the Jihadist magazine, Inspire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_%28magazine%29 |
|
Thraxle wrote
at 12:21 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT If Bush did this one of our resident liberals would have already posted this denouncing his actions as rogue and unethical.
They'll be OK with Obama doing it though. (It's the Koolaid) |
|
its really chase wrote
at 1:00 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT Goddamn who cares.
|
|
MadHat_Sam wrote
at 1:04 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT To be honest I prefer this over using the broadsword that is our armed forces. IF this was ever used on someone that people, Americans, didn't think the world was better off without the hue and cry would be intense.
Thraxle good job making an ass of yourself with that assumption ;-) |
|
Thraxle wrote
at 1:08 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT Well, so far two responses and neither of you cared.
However I guarantee Bush would have been chastized by someone on this site for this very thing. Let's see the responses continue... p.s. I'm all for killing mother fuckers that pose a threat to our country. I think DC's point of the post wasn't against the means to an end, it was against the hypocrisy that has become politics. |
|
its really chase wrote
at 1:11 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT politics has always been hypocrisy. i mean if this is a newsflash to you, welp i've got some bad news...
|
|
its really chase wrote
at 1:14 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT I'm not the one who makes this kind of decisions, and we dont know (and will probably never know) the complete reason behind these actions. Would my response be different based on who is in office? No. Thankfully I will not ever be forced to make such a decision.
|
|
MadHat_Sam wrote
at 1:15 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT Just think how much money we could have saved had we just give the CIA carte blanche to go kill a bunch of terrorists over invading countries.
In the first place I didn't have much of an issue with the Afghanistan operation and really think as a country we would have been better of doing that right over half-assing it and moving on to full-assing Iraq. Intelligence agencies, advanced unmanned drones and super awesome assassination robots are what we should be spending money on over the current money suck that our rather stagnant and technologically inefficient military industrial complex is focused on. |
|
Thraxle wrote
at 1:25 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT I completely agree with both of you (on all counts) and simply wanted to confirm the noticeable hypocrisy.
EOM |
|
Cal Ripken wrote
at 1:28 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT As a US citizen, he deserved due process.
|
|
Thraxle wrote
at 1:30 PM, Thursday October 6, 2011 EDT uhoh...decension amongst the ranks...
|