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talkpoliticsUsing the constitution as toilet paper - again. The Obama administration authorized the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki who holds US citizenship. There is some nefarious precedent being created by allowing the President to order the killing of American citizens, regardless of their alleged crimes, without granting them their 5th Amendment rights. Bush with his renditions, and the implications of the Patriot Act was bad enough, but ordering a US citizen to be assassinated as Obama now did takes it to a whole new level. I bet Stalin would be proud of Barry Soetoro. Anyone want to wager which other parts of the constitution will be considered void by Obama until he gets kicked out of the white house?
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Date: 7/4/10 17:37 (UTC)*If* he was captured, it would be great for him to go to trial, but he is definitely a primary target in a war against Al-Q. To pretend he's just some guy is silly and I'm beginning to think willfully ignorant, willfully because it lets you criticize Obama, so you'll just let go all actual information go.
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Date: 7/4/10 17:52 (UTC)So the only way to bring him to trial would involve sending in an extraction team and risking multiple lives. If he were in Iowa, I'm guessing they wouldn't be resorting to assassination.
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Date: 10/4/10 01:05 (UTC)Honestly, I'm not sure you (nor I) can make such a sweeping generalization like _________ are not morally bankrupt, or __________are immoral people.
Let's grant that my statements were at their core, flippant, partially because I took your statement that sending a drone to take out this guy was immoral and extrapolated to infer that you felt anyone who believed that was immoral, therefore I am immoral. I may be wrong, but as a generalization, immoral, not a chance, at least not as I think of morallity.
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Date: 10/4/10 02:36 (UTC)Yes, I would consider anyone who supports preemptive strikes and political assassinations to be morally inferior. They are also not following (or understanding) the Constitution.
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