[Teacher317]

First, Yemen is not a declared battlefield.
Second, he was not an enemy combatant.

I'm glad he's dead, but the method raises HUGE issues. If Obama can do this, why can't he do it to Freepers who make comments about the Tree of Liberty needing blood?

The salient point is that all of the assumptions we are making (he was a terrorist, he was inciting violence against America, he needed killing) are all much more properly made by a judge, and not by politicians!!!!! Once you give politicians the power to kill Americans without a trial, you are opening Pandors Box. Paul is right in this case. He often takes a logical point beyond it's logical extreme, but not in this case.

We should have had the American terrorist arrested, tried, and then out to death. Had he been found in a live battlefield, actively attacking American soldiers, those rules go out the window, he wasn't. Obama murder an American citizen, and most of the nation cheered. in 25 years, this precedent could lead to some VERY unfortunate and unforeseen consequences.

[svcw]

When he said this: 'Awlaki said': “With the American invasion of Iraq and continued U.S. aggression against Muslims, I could not reconcile between living in the U.S. and being a Muslim, and I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every other Muslim,”

To bad so sad, he made his loyalties known, he was killed in a battle not in the USA. Feel sympathy for him fine, I do not. He made his positions known a multitude of times and suffered the consequences.