Obama asserts the right to assassinate American citizens who pose security risk

[Triple Zero]

Sure is a good thing American intelligence agencies such have a stellar track record of telling terrorists from civilians!

I dunno, a successful suicide bombing in a public facility or transport kind of tends to make everybody hard to tell apart.

[Reginald Ret]

Uh... This seems to say that our military and intelligence people are allowed to strike al-Qaeda operatives even if they're American citizens...

What the fuck are your panties all bunched up for?

There are 3 people on this list and there's pretty clear evidence that they're taking part in military operations against the United States.

I'm all for due process and I believe calling criminals "enemy combatants" is fucked up, but people who are going after troops and assisting suicide bombers should be considered combatants. If they can't be captured, killing them seems perfectly acceptable to me. This particular issue wasn't a big deal to me when Bush was in office (there were much bigger fish to fry) and, frankly, there are bigger fish fry with Obama as well.

You guys are acting like the CIA or the army is going to break down your door and execute you or something.

Let's act this one out ok??
i'll be the 'merican govt.

"ZOMG Slanket is terrist!"
either Slanket was shot in the ass while cuddling a puppy
or Slanket was bombed in his house teaching his baby son to talk.


now you can reply.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Uh... This seems to say that our military and intelligence people are allowed to strike al-Qaeda operatives even if they're American citizens...

What the fuck are your panties all bunched up for?

There are 3 people on this list and there's pretty clear evidence that they're taking part in military operations against the United States.

I'm all for due process and I believe calling criminals "enemy combatants" is fucked up, but people who are going after troops and assisting suicide bombers should be considered combatants. If they can't be captured, killing them seems perfectly acceptable to me. This particular issue wasn't a big deal to me when Bush was in office (there were much bigger fish to fry) and, frankly, there are bigger fish fry with Obama as well.

You guys are acting like the CIA or the army is going to break down your door and execute you or something.

Let's act this one out ok??
i'll be the 'merican govt.

"ZOMG Slanket is terrist!"
either Slanket was shot in the ass while cuddling a puppy
or Slanket was bombed in his house teaching his baby son to talk.


now you can reply.

I can reply but I can't take your post seriously.

[Template]

Uh... This seems to say that our military and intelligence people are allowed to strike al-Qaeda operatives even if they're American citizens...

What the fuck are your panties all bunched up for?

There are 3 people on this list and there's pretty clear evidence that they're taking part in military operations against the United States.

I'm all for due process and I believe calling criminals "enemy combatants" is fucked up, but people who are going after troops and assisting suicide bombers should be considered combatants. If they can't be captured, killing them seems perfectly acceptable to me. This particular issue wasn't a big deal to me when Bush was in office (there were much bigger fish to fry) and, frankly, there are bigger fish fry with Obama as well.

You guys are acting like the CIA or the army is going to break down your door and execute you or something.

Let's act this one out ok??
i'll be the 'merican govt.

"ZOMG Slanket is terrist!"
either Slanket was shot in the ass while cuddling a puppy
or Slanket was bombed in his house teaching his baby son to talk.


now you can reply.

I can reply but I can't take your post seriously.

Assassination is a secret act.  Secret things aren't explained publicly often.  If you don't have to answer to anyone, you'll do it how you damn well please.  Assassinations will be done how someone damn well pleases.

I don't want someone else having the privilege of arbitrarily deciding life and death when I don't.

[Jasper]

I don't want someone else having the privilege of arbitrarily deciding life and death when I don't.

So if Obama gave everyone the right to hire assassins, you'd be okay with it?

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

The thing is, it's NOT arbitrary.

[Cain]

No, its just calculated by the same analysts who managed to imprison three times as many innocent people as suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

And is done with a weapon which kills 20 civilians for each "suspected" terrorist it gets.

[Jasper]

The fact is that it is simply more power than the war warrants.  It has no right to spy on US citizens, no right to draft US citizens, no right to station soldiers in the country, and no right to have suspects assasinated.

[Elder Iptuous]

The fact is that it is simply more power than the war warrants.  It has no right to spy on US citizens, no right to draft US citizens, no right to station soldiers in the country, and no right to have suspects assasinated.

that sounds like terrist talk, boy.
you better watchyer back!

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

No, its just calculated by the same analysts who managed to imprison three times as many innocent people as suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

And is done with a weapon which kills 20 civilians for each "suspected" terrorist it gets.

The drone air strikes are definitely something that I very strongly disagree with, but not going after enemies because they happen to be from America is a good way to get hit with more attacks.

[Jasper]

No, its just calculated by the same analysts who managed to imprison three times as many innocent people as suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

And is done with a weapon which kills 20 civilians for each "suspected" terrorist it gets.

The drone air strikes are definitely something that I very strongly disagree with, but not going after enemies because they happen to be from America is a good way to get hit with more attacks.

Isn't it specious to imply that you can fight terrorism at home the same way you fight it abroad, though?

[Template]

No, its just calculated by the same analysts who managed to imprison three times as many innocent people as suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

And is done with a weapon which kills 20 civilians for each "suspected" terrorist it gets.

The drone air strikes are definitely something that I very strongly disagree with, but not going after enemies because they happen to be from America is a good way to get hit with more attacks.

Again, there is no gunplay in one's boudoir.  There's no reason to not act in a manner more in line with policing.

[Cain]

No, its just calculated by the same analysts who managed to imprison three times as many innocent people as suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

And is done with a weapon which kills 20 civilians for each "suspected" terrorist it gets.

The drone air strikes are definitely something that I very strongly disagree with, but not going after enemies because they happen to be from America is a good way to get hit with more attacks.

Now you're conflating "not assassinating suspected terrorists" with "not going after" terrorists.  And did you know you can do this thing to terrorists where you can catch and interrogate and imprison them (after a fair trial) which also "deals" with them?

[Reginald Ret]

No, its just calculated by the same analysts who managed to imprison three times as many innocent people as suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

And is done with a weapon which kills 20 civilians for each "suspected" terrorist it gets.

The drone air strikes are definitely something that I very strongly disagree with, but not going after enemies because they happen to be from America is a good way to get hit with more attacks.

Now you're conflating "not assassinating suspected terrorists" with "not going after" terrorists.  And did you know you can do this thing to terrorists where you can catch and interrogate and imprison them (after a fair trial) which also "deals" with them?

AKA how do you know they are enemies?

[Cain]

Because some analyst in an office, with a program he didn't code, with input from field agents he doesn't know, from sources whose reliability he isn't aware of, told the President he was a threat to national security!