[BellStar]

Why do we publish this stuff. Where is the editors who know loose lips sink ships of the media.

[Caipirabob]

My question is "Are they only going to use this outside of American soil?"

Our home grown terrorists seem to be focused on gridlocking the Senate these days.

[aye_am_mr_burns]

violence is the only language these cowards speak. It is time to show them that we are well versed in the language

[G.Mason]

< " The assassination issue has been discussed very delicately by key officials, Newsweek reported." >

Yes....when the administration has talks about assassination they do it in a most sophisticated and elegant way.

However.......

< "....The New Yorker reported that a new war plan for Iraq is now the subject of furious debate within the Bush Administration." >

When the same administration deals with the Iraq situation they bring "brass knuckles" to beat each other senseless.

Hmmm....I must be missing something here.

[weikel]

I don't understand why this is even a debate track em and whack em.

[SusanUSA]

Bump to keep it on my radar screen. Thanks.

[WIMom]

"The Bush administration is also said to be considering a covert plan to send U.S. troops to help topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq."

Let's announce it to the world. This article is full of 'sources say' but no direct quotes or facts are presented other than Shelby stating their hands are untied.

[veronica]

BTTT.

Targeted killings WORK. In Israel, and by the USA. Bad guys deserve no less. Bad news for trial lawyers but good news for everyone else.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

It works for Israel.

If we take out Saddam at least we can get out of the Gulf and remove one reason for pissing the people there off.

[Colt .45]

Assassination? Works for me! Its high time we take off the kid gloves and start smacking the piss out of these little third world dictators who are getting too big for their britches. Of course the Socialist left in this country will scream bloody murder, but in the long run if we don't do it to them, they will continue to exploit our openness. We need to send a clear cut message around the world ... "Don't MESS WITH US! Don't come picking fights, and don't mess with our freedom! This we will defend!

[NC Conservative]

Nothing to weigh except your options. Head shot to the left side or head shot to the right side. BOOM!!

[LibWhacker]

Of course, we should. There shouldn't even be a discussion about it. Who are they discussing it with, liberals? Traitors? It's a matter of self-defense. End of story.

But not only the terrorists themselves should be individually targeted, but also their families who encourage and honor them (terrorists don't arise in a vacuum), their friends, their classmates, their business associates, their neighbors, their mullahs and others at their mosques, where this insane, primitive hatred of westerners is encouraged, taught, preached, nurtured, disseminated, aided, abetted and glorified. We have to turn terrorists into pariahs in their homes, instead of heroes, by out terrorizing them and their loved ones by orders of magnitude.

It's war now. You don't win by wringing your hands over the corpse of political correctness.

[glaseatr]

"I'll weigh it"

Feels like 250 grains to me!!!

[putupon]

U.S. military and government officials are secretly debating whether the U.S. war on terrorism should include plots to assassinate terror leaders before they can strike America, it was reported yesterday.

Secret? Just shut up and do it.

[TheHeterodoxConservative]

What a worthless, no-news article:

"U.S. military and government officials are secretly debating whether the U.S. war on terrorism should include plots to assassinate terror leaders before they can strike America, it was reported yesterday."

Yesterday? How 'bout every day since before Kennedy and Castro?

"The Bush administration is also said to be considering a covert plan to send U.S. troops to help topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq."

No spit. So did Bush, Sr. and even Billy.

"The assassination issue has been discussed very delicately by key officials, Newsweek reported."

Bull. Why would they need to discuss it "delicately." I'm guessing Dubya's and Dick's conversations are more in the vein of "major league Clymer" and "big-time," when they're in private.

"Officials at National Security Council meetings never use the word assassination directly — and don't discuss targeting specific individuals, the magazine says."

Of course not at official NSC meetings -- too many potential embarrassing leaks. But I'll bet Rummy has some choice, memorable, colorful ways of discussing targeting specific individuals.

"Instead, the talk is of whether to take out "command and control" outposts or strike "strategically decisive blows" against heads of terror cells."

Again, bull. This from the administration whose head once again this weekend said, "I don't really care. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me. "

(Ya gotta love our team!)

[japaneseghost]

SEND ME, SEND ME!