U.S. drone attack kills American-born Muslim cleric in Yemen

Whether he has the power to do this or not is sort of a murky area.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/11/joe-lieberman/lieberman-says-president-can-approve-killing-us-ci/

 

As far as I'm concerned they're wanted criminals who fled, hid in foreign countries and got killed in a fight when they were found. Sort of like the final scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid only they're not nearly as likable as Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

 

Didn't the Bush Administration resolve all these pesky ethical questions surrounding 'unlawful combatants' back in 2003?

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kt6n5zf;jsessionid=496EC21BB29B495BCA946F510977D264#page-1

 

This was not a we-tried-to-capture-but-killed-him scenario. We were actively targeting Al-Alwaki for assassination. I'm pretty uneasy with this deprivation of due process rights.

 

Has there ever been a case where a U.S. court has ruled against the President who has approved the killing of anyone? Ironically, I think Obama probably has a better case justifying the strike when viewed under the scope of international law.

 

As long as we're using baseball analogies, Obama killing bin Laden was the baseball equivalent of Obama getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to cap a 10-run inning in which all of the other baserunners were from the Bush team. And Obama went to the plate without a bat in his hands because he had previously announced he was against the use of all the weapons the Bush team had used.

 

This new member may end up causing more problems than Skiptomylou1-10

 

How do you get to be a mod?

 

How do you get to be a mod? Dress nattily, ride a scooter, take speed, listen to Motown.

 

Shit, you beat me, but I like what I was going to post: "Well, look at a lot of film of the swinging London scene, imitate the clothing and get into the Who."

 

I didn't say which president did more or less. I just called you on your obvious "every other major Al-Qaeda leader was left alive" during the Bush administration bullshit, and gave you about a dozen examples of why you were wrong. And what do you care of Khalid Mohammad was still alive. He's not breathing free air and thanks to the waterboarding he gave up a lot of shit.

The debate wasn't who's done more. The debate was your ridiculous contention that Bush had done nothing.

 

Oh my. No doubt the political debates will ramp up just in time for 2012.