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In reply to the discussion: I'm astonished so many DUers are cool with ending Habeas Corpus [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)The WH press secretary was unable to supply it. I would love to see it, because until it is presented, a US citizen was assassinated on the order of a US president without charges and without trial.
He was in a country whose government is very friendly to the US. Even going so far as to allow the US to bomb his own country and then pretend that he ordered it. A liar to his own people. So he would have been more than willing to cooperate with the US in arresting anyone they asked him to.
So far from being a combat zone Yemen was an ally.
Unless of course, you are presenting the ridiculous Bush claims that the whole world is a battle field and the US can kill whoever they want anywhere in the world because of the biggest lie ever told, that we are engaged in a 'WAR' which they have named the Great WOT??
Because if this is not your argument, there simply is no other argument to excuse these Bush policies, there wasn't when he was president, and there still is not.
The US is not at war. No country attacked it. But the US has attacked several countries now, making us a threat to an awful lot of people, such as the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and whoever else got in the way.
To defend this is impossible under our Constitution. The laws had to be rewritten and twisted by Bush's gang of war criminals to even be able to come up with some of the excuses being made here. Because they certainly cannot be backed up by the Constitution.
And this was one of the reasons we worked so hard to get rid of Republicans, so that we could restore the rule of law to this country. Instead now we see Democrats defending Bush's policies.
No wonder people have given up on the political system and have taken to the streets.