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Jill Stein: I would not have assassinated bin Laden
CNN ^ | September 12, 2016 | David Wright

Posted on 09/12/2016 8:12:35 AM PDT by C19fan

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said in an interview published Sunday that she would not have ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden.

Marking the 15th anniversary of September 11 terror attacks, Stein instead told the Des Moines Register that she would have tried to bring the terror leader to trial in accordance with international law.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: binladen; dumbass; green; greenparty; gwot; jillstein; obl; stein; thirdparty
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Dumbass Stein, killing an enemy combatant is legal under int'l law.
1 posted on 09/12/2016 8:12:35 AM PDT by C19fan
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I am kind of with her on this. He could have been taken alive; he was unarmed. Wonder why he wasn’t?


2 posted on 09/12/2016 8:14:25 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: C19fan

Buh bye, Jill.


3 posted on 09/12/2016 8:15:14 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Probably not since she isn’t a Navy SEAL.


4 posted on 09/12/2016 8:16:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: C19fan

You don’t assassinate , you Kill


5 posted on 09/12/2016 8:16:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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She went after Hill as well...

https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/775129041590325249?lang=en


6 posted on 09/12/2016 8:16:45 AM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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Sounds like 2004 John Kerry — ‘terrorism is a law enforcement issue.’


7 posted on 09/12/2016 8:17:10 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: castlegreyskull

Really?

What if he was captured alive?

What then?


8 posted on 09/12/2016 8:17:52 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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He ordered the death of 3,000 on 911 and you say SO WHAT?
What an ignorant icehole.
Freegards
LEX


9 posted on 09/12/2016 8:19:05 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: castlegreyskull
I am kind of with her on this. He could have been taken alive; he was unarmed. Wonder why he wasn’t?

How did the SEAL who shot him know that he was unarmed? They knocked down the door and shot him within a second or two. It was killed or be killed. Combat works that way.

10 posted on 09/12/2016 8:22:07 AM PDT by kabar
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He could have been taken alive; he was unarmed. Wonder why he wasn’t?

He had a lot of knowledge about American wealthy elites, politicians, top office holders, bureaucracies, policies and strategies that many people would not want made public.


11 posted on 09/12/2016 8:22:11 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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That is my point. He was unarmed and watching porn. Why did they shoot him when they could have taken him alive?


12 posted on 09/12/2016 8:22:23 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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I am kind of with her on this. He could have been taken alive; he was unarmed. Wonder why he wasn’t?

Bin Laden probably had little operational control over Al Qaeda for several years prior, due to his hiding, so intelligence gain might be limited. More important, you do not want a martyr, a point of focus for his followers, or him making any public statements. If he is alive, a$$holes like Stein would demand his release.

Once SEAL team 6 was clear of the place, I would have dropped 3 x 1000 lb bombs in succession on the compound to absolutely reduce it to rubble, just to leave a gaping hole, and send a message to Pakistan and those protecting Bin Laden.

Oh, and whoever ordered the "muslim" burial ritual for his death would have been fired immediately.

13 posted on 09/12/2016 8:22:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: castlegreyskull

Well, here we have to know all the facts.

I may not know all the facts, but if I recall correctly, there was a shootout going on in Bin Laden’s hideout. So trying to capture an unarmed Bin Laden may not have been realistic.

Do you know the facts, anyone else? Was Bin Laden ready to surrender, was he unarmed, was there not a firefight going on there?? Maybe I just don’t know the facts of what happened that day.


14 posted on 09/12/2016 8:23:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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she would have tried to bring the terror leader to trial in accordance with international law.

And since it would have been his First Conviction, she would have recommended Probation and Community Service.


15 posted on 09/12/2016 8:24:09 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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Reminds me of 1988, Dukakis talking about how he would respond to a hypothetical rape of his wife.


16 posted on 09/12/2016 8:24:16 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Iron Munro

I think Bin Laden was dead since 2004, killed in Tora Bora. This was just some stunt.


17 posted on 09/12/2016 8:24:39 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That is the thing, no one knows the facts. There are no pictures. They threw his body into the ocean. It was told he was watching porn and he was unarmed. At the same time, we crashed a stealth helo, and there was a fire fight going on.

The following weeks, nearly every man in that operation was killed in a suspicious helo accident.


18 posted on 09/12/2016 8:26:16 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

Then what?

Bring him back here and give him a show-trial in NYC so he could wax lyrical on the witness stand about the evils of The Great Satan?


19 posted on 09/12/2016 8:27:53 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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He could have been taken alive; he was unarmed.
Wrong. Here's the scenario ==>So ... 1) He was NOT unarmed; 2)He didn't deserve to live; 3) What would you have done?
20 posted on 09/12/2016 8:28:24 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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