[Pitchfork]

Perhaps someone can explain to me why this isn't a contravention of the current policy against assassination? If you use a 6 foot long 100lb hellfire missle--and risk local civilians who fortunately were not harmed in this attack--that's a legal war action but if you use a sniper rifle that somehow distasteful? What a load of...

We could save tens of thousands of lives if we put a dozen or so CIA assassins in Iraq right now to effect 'regime change'. I've repeatedly come out against a war on this forum but I'd certainly support taking out Saddam while avoiding US and Iraqi civilian casualties.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Perhaps someone can explain to me why this isn't a contravention of the current policy against assassination?

Probably because, iirc, the policy against assassination is an executive order signed by a previous presidentthat most likely deals with foreign heads of state/members of government... Last I heard, Al Qaeda is not a government...

[Grampa Dave]

You can thank some of the Rat Senators in our senate now for making the killing of the leaders who want to kill us a crime. Bidin, Leahy, Kennedy, Da$$hole.

I think that we are approaching a new page in warfare. That is we kill the despots who try and want to kill us instead of destroying all those around them including a lot of innocent people.

If we kill a thousand like the clymer killed today and about 10 to twenty top leaders in each nation who have funded terrorism the past two decades, this war on terrorism would basically be over. Jail and try every mullah of death who has preached kill Americans and Jews for the past two decades to free the middle east from their poison.

[hinckley buzzard]

I am coming to believe that there will be no "War" in Iraq. It won't be necessary. Saddam is under relentless, increasing pressure, and stories such as this one do not go unnoticed in Bagdad.

It's just a matter of time before something gives--press on something long enough and hard enough, and it is going to break. The "post-Saddam" leaders are being groomed now.

All the fools yelling about the "warmongering" GW and the "Oil War" and all the other leftwing claptrap will soon be scrambling to find a new reason to object to justice and liberty.