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Posted on 02/06/2013 5:11:09 PM PST by smoothsailing
Washington (CNN) - Amid new controversy over his administration's targeted killing of American citizens, President Barack Obama has yielded to demands from Congress to turn over to them classified Justice Department legal advice justifying the policy.
The president's move comes on the eve of confirmation hearings Thursday for his CIA director-nominee John Brennan, and complaints from senators - including several Democrats - about secrecy surrounding the drone policy.
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Of course it’s BS to be able to kill anyone unless you know for a fact they are about kill you. But killing Americans without any knowledge of an imminent attack is flat out murder. When liberals like Bob Beckel say it’s murder and liberals like Dennis Kucinich say it’s murder, and agree with conservatives, well then it’s murder. It’s also unconstitutional, but the Constitution is something the Kenyan King has no use for, so he disregards the rule of law.
But, let’s not forget that it was RINO George W. Bush who put this in motion to start with after 9/11. The policy of containment and detente that we had lived with since the end of WW2 was a thing of the past. The Bush administration, in attempting to justify attacking Iraq, said they had the right to attack any country on the face of the earth if they felt like that country was a threat to the US. No proof need be necessary. Obama has only taken it one step further, he thinks he has the right and the power to kill any person, INCLUDING AMERICANS, who he thinks are a threat to the security of the United States. Once again, having clear-but proof of an imminent attack is not part of the equation. The president is the one who makes the call, after all only he knows who needs to die and who needs to live. And just think I always thought James Bond was the only person with a license to kill. All Hail 007 Barack Bond.
“I figure they have given up their right to “due process” as an out-country combatant working for another regime or agency.”
And you would be correct.
A person who is an America citizen, working for a terrorist organization such as AQ or an AQ affilliate, deserves to be killed.
Just like a citizen who left for Germany during WWII to fight for the Nazi regime, should be killed in battle, not put in the court system.
This “conservative” reflex against this policy is just anti Obama numbness. This policy should be supported, just as the Drone strikes into Pakistan should be supported.
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