[Mr. Mojo]

Granted, I'm not fully aware of all the specifics of the amendment you speak of. But it's my understanding that it only (legally) prevents us from assassinating leaders of nation-states, not of terrorist organizations. So the likes of OBL and Arafat are fair game.

But I agree with you that the no-assassination policy should be scrapped, even though we could just do our business covertly (completely disregarding the amendment) and few would know the difference, or would be able to prove that we ordered the hit. Castro has lived way too long.

[ninenot]

It is NOT co-incidence that the Schumers of this world are now demanding that any Special Ops exercises be specifically approved/ordered by POTUS.

They intend to find POTUS "guilty" of assasination.

This is related to the war against terrorism, because the most likely targets for SpecOps will be terrorist leaders, not covered by the Church(?) Amendment.

On the broader front, it has been amply demonstrated that terrorists have already attacked the USA--the African embassy, the Cole, and 9/11. (Possibly OKC and TWA 800, as well.) There is no moral restriction preventing us from stamping out terrorists, wherever they may be.