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Disturbing that so many are fine with Obama acting as judge,jury and executioner.
For crying out loud, Obama was very open right from the campaign trail that he would go after bin Laden and would take him out. It's one of the reasons he got elected. There is no Left hypocrisy here.
If anyone in this thread can't see the difference between taking out bin Laden and a policy of torturing prisoners (which Obama ended) then they need to have their brain celled tuned up.
So, Afghanistan war isn't really a war? Iraq war wasn't really a war?
We did not waterboard uniformed Iraqi or Afghani soldiers. Is it that hard to differentiate a terrorists group, with multi-national members whose charter is to seek out and kill innocent people from all over the globe, and separate them from uniformed soldiers, pressed into uniform to defend their nation from an invading army?
Uniformed soldiers of a sovereign nation are recognized and protected under the Geneva Conventions, terrorists were not even mentioned or considered. Mercenaries were given very few protections under the GC, the closest the GC came to terrorists was when it defined a war criminals/profiteers. Terrorists are a many rungs lower on the ladder, then even civilians taking advantage of the chaos of war, to steal rape and pillage.
For crying out loud, Obama was very open right from the campaign trail that he would go after bin Laden and would take him out. It's one of the reasons he got elected. There is no Left hypocrisy here.
If anyone in this thread can't see the difference between taking out bin Laden and a policy of torturing prisoners (which Obama ended) then they need to their brain celled tuned up.
Amen. Nevermind the fact, that the symptoms of dead brain cells were showing when these folks were labeling Obama's statements as something out of inexperience.
Bin Laden was a known terrorist leader who not only planned but also financed successful terrorist operations all over the world. He declared war on the U.S.A. which made him a legal target. The policy of water boarding could be applied to anyone regardless of any known act against the U.S. other than looking Muslim and it was/still is an illegal policy.
KSM was a known terrorist leader who planned and financed terrorist attacks and was certainly at war with the US. Can we go to his cell and shoot him?
What planet are you on? The "Left" didn't do a damn thing and neither did the "Right". It was the CIA and US MILITARY. I know most of them are Conservative, but I like to stay away from partisan garbage when referring to them.
Then what is the point of this thread? According to you, the CIA and MILITARY will torture or shoot regardless of what is okay.
Then what is the point of this thread? According to you, the CIA and MILITARY will torture or shoot regardless of what is okay.
I have no idea what you are getting at. All I did was point out the fact that neither "R's" nor "D's" did anything here in regards to actually getting OBL.
You might have a point were it not for the simple fact that, had this happened while "W" was in office, the Navy Seals who capped this tool would be investigated for war crimes right along with the CIA agents who pieced together his location partly from enhanced interrogations at GITMO and secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.
Care to take a crack at answering the question of why waterboarding is a war crime but execution is not?
Waterboarding is torture. Execution is not torture.
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