My beef with drones is not the boogey-man "on US soil", it's Obama's Bush-Lite Doctrine

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47. Search warrants are a hassle too...

As well as a trial by a jury by your peers.

Yet as a nation we've created laws to guide the conduct of law enforcement and protect the rights of Americans. America prides itself in it's efforts to defend the American people's freedoms and civil liberties. We consider ourselves a model for the world in regards to respecting human dignity and human rights.

One should expect the same kind of lofty idealism, due diligence, and oversight before our soldiers arbitrarily kill someone in a third world country who may be or NOT be a terrorist. More than more likely many who have been dubbed "terrorists" are actually enemy soldiers who are fighting against the dictators we prop up in the name of securing their oil and other resources for our multinational corporations.

Congressional approval is one form of oversight but there others that could be used to ensure that any measure of last resort such as killing anyone anywhere in the world is done because their is an immediate threat to America. And it should be to protect against threats to America and Americans NOT our corporate oil and other multinational resource exploiting endeavors in the countries we occupy.

Yes, you can name actual terrorists killed in drone strikes. But one can also list hundreds of innocent men women and children who were murdered in an over zealous effort to protect our oil and our multinational corporate whores who mar America's democratic image.

When other countries start justifying summary executions in their satellite colony nations will we be as nonchalant to their actions as we are about our own?.....