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Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:46 PM

ProSense (116,464 posts)

8. This statement

It is amazing how accepting the public has become of the notion that we as a country can violate a nation's sovereignty anytime we want in order to kill its citizens, but also how accepting we are as a country to our fellow citizens being killed on the say-so of one man who ultimately acts as judge, jury and executioner.

...is ridiculous. Most of these countries cooperate with the U.S. There is also the AUMF, similiarly a law dating back to Clinton's Presidency. And the President has always had the authority to act in defense of the country's national security, even with a Constitutional lead time to justify committing troops to war.

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13 replies	Author	Time	Post
Obama on drones and extrajudicial killing [View all]	MadHound	Sep 2012	OP
I agree completely & totally.	CrispyQ	Sep 2012	#1
And with whom do we have a better chance of putting that genie back in the bottle?	MadHound	Sep 2012	#2
I don't believe we'll ever get that genie back in the bottle.	CrispyQ	Sep 2012	#4
Well, we'd better,	MadHound	Sep 2012	#5
Why assume that Obama would be more benevolent?	DerekG	Sep 2012	#13
K&R Wake the hell up, America.	woo me with science	Sep 2012	#3
I think "the public"	Le Taz Hot	Sep 2012	#6
It's America's new Wonder Weapon designed to make us look like we didn't lose another war.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Sep 2012	#7
This statement	ProSense	Sep 2012	#8
Just because a law dates to Clinton doesn't make it right,	MadHound	Sep 2012	#9
Naive much?	ProSense	Sep 2012	#11
No, these countries file formal protests,	MadHound	Sep 2012	#12
I agree, but this horse has been out of the barn for almost five decades.	hifiguy	Sep 2012	#10

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