They're clueless.
Posted on 02/21/2007 11:45:18 AM PST by Kitten Festival
Paul Campos has beclowned himself. He did it in the usual way, by arguing loudly about things he does not understand.
Campos chose to devote an entire column (“The right’s Ward Churchill,” Feb. 20) to a blog entry of mine from last week, in which I wondered why the Bush administration wasn’t acting covertly to kill radical mullahs and atomic scientists, rather than preparing a major attack on Iran. (Silly me, I thought this was advocating a less warlike approach). According to Campos, this suggestion was both morally wrong — suggesting that we kill people this way made me a “fascist” and an “extremist” — and illegal.
Indeed, not only was I suggesting something illegal, according to Campos, but the mere act of suggesting it made me some sort of “accessory to murder.” Campos, however, has both his law and history wrong.
History first: There’s nothing beyond the pale about suggesting assassination and covert action as an alternative to warfare. In 1998, Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Joseph Biden, D-Del., asked the government to look into assassination as a means of dealing with terrorists; Sen. Chuck Robb, D-Va., suggested assassinating Saddam Hussein the same year. On Jan. 3, 2001, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., introduced legislation to facilitate the assassination of terrorists. And in 1997, George Stephanopoulos wrote: “A misreading of the law or misplaced moral squeamishness should not stop the president from talking about assassination. He should order up the options and see if it’s possible. If we can kill Saddam, we should.” If this be fascism, make the most of it.
Nor would such action be illegal. Assassination is forbidden by executive order. Nothing prevents the president from rescinding that order, or amending it. And ... killing enemy leaders or weapons scientists isn’t even assassination
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They're clueless.
Code Pinko?
Nah. He was trying to assasinate a camel.
Liberals prefer to stand back and watch millions slaughtered (Cambodia, post U.S. Vietnam, Laos, Rwanda, on and on and on...) than take responsibility for anything. Liberal compassion is rooted in ignorance and is nothing more than a warm fuzzy feeling of self-congratulatory hypocrisy. It is a major cause of suffering not a solution to it.
Hide your cats and camels, Clinton's back in town. =!8-O
Then there was that whole Kennedy assassination of Diem thing....and he wasn't even the enemy.
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