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Posted on 05/08/2011 9:48:57 AM PDT by .454Puma
“Bush should have declared OBL an Outlaw on Day 1, posted the reward and let NAture take it’s course.”
What you describe was called a Letter of Marque and Reprisal back in the 18th century. Under the US Constitution, the President does not have authority to issue such a letter. However, Article I Section 8 does confer such authority to Congress under its enumerated powers.
One congressman did propose that Congress grant a Letter of Marque and Reprisal against “Osama bin Laden and others known and unknown, either knowingly and actively affiliated with a terrorist organization known as al Qaeda”. (HR 3076 `September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001’, 10/10/2001, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:H.R.3076:). That particular congressman is usually the object of derision here at FR.
No offense, I am sure our SEALS can pull off miracles but this whole op smells.
But it did get the BC issue off the Headlines.....didn’t it?
I agree, the whole thing just seems suspicious, like 0bama had entirely different motives. One other thing: I've never seen anything out of 0bama that made me think that he believes America is "his country".
It makes more sense to me to capture him and interrogate him at least at first. Get all the info you can from him before putting him to death.
How did he fail to qualify? He came up with a certificate of live birth.
You're part of the grammar enforcement association?
lol...
Learning from history is important if we are to avoid the mistakes of the past when dealing with terrorists -
"The student protests of 1968 gradually became riots. The young terrorists in their desperate attempt to start the world revolution took to terrorism: mere bank robbings turned to kidnappings and murders. Most of the leaders of the most famous West German terrorist group, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, were captured in mid-1972. Their followers continued kidnapping and killing people over the next five years in an effort to secure their leaders' release from prison, but it was all in vain. The German government had no intention of releasing them.
The German government used the terrorist crisis to approve new laws giving them broad powers in fighting terrorism. Radical leftists protested, but the majority of the German people were firmly on the side of the government. Late in 1977, after an airplane hi-jacking by Palestinian comrades failed to release the three imprisoned leaders of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the terrorists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe all committed suicide at Stammheim prison deep at night on October 17, 1977. "
Would you want an OBL alive in jail to inspire even more attacks to 'free' him?
The Germans, ever the pragmatists, were right to allow "suicide" for their attack magnets.
AS always, YMMV
He "came up with it" alright.
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