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Glen Greenwald would be considered a leftist by most folks. One I happen to agree with on this issue. So, for those of you claiming no one on the left is decrying this action...here you go:
The man was a known terrorist. It would have been virtually impossible to apprehend this murderer and try him in the United States. Good riddance to evil human garbage. May he burn in Hell.
WOW!!!! how deluded...Little Bush and the neo-Cons got the ball rolling and yet you assign no blame to anyone but the current Admin?Turn FAUX off,get out of your bubble and enjoy some fresh air...it will do you good
You need to make yourself clearer. What are you talking about?
Why should being American protect you if you are a terrorist and commiting treason against your country.
I tell you what this left-of-center liberal says:
I love my country, I love the fact that we can argue ourselves crazy here.
Nutjobs like the ones who just got taken out don't understand that and wanted to destroy it.
Give 'em a one-way ticket to hell, courtesy of the American taxpayers. I got NO problem with it. You don't get on that ****list for parking in the wrong place or having dark skin.
I think we have to look at this, no question. At no time should such action be taken lightly, but in the real world, the constitution has been trampled like this before. Greenwald wasn't the first, surely you can't believe that. He most likely won't be the last either.
That said, this happens few and far between. In the real world our government will have to take some actions like this to resolve a problem, and its plain to see that al-Awlaki was a problem.
Our government must be flexible, or it won't survive. But that doesn't mean we don't hold these kinds of actions up to scrutiny.
To a very fine point though. Just look at Libya.
Since May and Congress won't even acknowledge it nevermind condone or reject it. We're funding it and making believe it doesn't exist.
Speak for yourself. You and a tiny fraction of liberal posters have found a cause with the most mouth breathing, knuckle dragging right wingers here.
That should set off alarms right there.
Not really, even mouth breathing, knuckle dragging right wingers here can be right on occasion. I don't base my beliefs on who agrees or disagrees with my point of view, but rather on the facts at hand. Although I hasten to point out while the "mouth breathing, knuckle dragging right wingers here" may agree on the ends I think that there are areas of disagreement on the means.
I'm as liberal as they come and do not know of any liberal pundits or left leaning liberal legal scholars that agree with Obama.
This is not coming from the "right" alone....this is coming from every ideology that respects the rule of law.
If you read my posts, you'll know that I'm pretty liberal too. Yet, I'm pragmatic. To me, Awlaki wasn't just a suspect he admitted he's at war with America and he posed an imminent threat to the lives of Americans. Under those condition, offensive action is not only warranted but necessary. A bank hostage taker isn't due, due process by the sharp-shooter.
Why should being American protect you if you are a terrorist and commiting treason against your country.
I tell you what this left-of-center liberal says:
I love my country, I love the fact that we can argue ourselves crazy here.
Nutjobs like the ones who just got taken out don't understand that and wanted to destroy it.
Give 'em a one-way ticket to hell, courtesy of the American taxpayers. I got NO problem with it. You don't get on that ****list for parking in the wrong place or having dark skin.
I don't think anyone is defending this really bad actor from Al Qaeda. Rather, daring to ask if the way this was handled was Constitutional. Did our government take the steps it should under the US Constitution? Was Alawaki formally charged with treason (as a US citizen) before being placed on an assasination list? Was there a trial from which his death sentence arose or did Obama just give the execution order?
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