Reply #128: We KNOW what Cheney says, when he opens his mouth, it's bullshit.

[sabrina 1]

'let them make their arguments in court'. Well, they tried, but this administration blocked access to the courts. Too late after you are dead. Why would someone's access to the courts, someone who is targeted for killing, be blocked?

I KNOW if Bush was doing this what the reaction here would be. Do we have to wait for another Republican in the WH to return to the outrage over these Constitutional violations.

It is NOT Constitutional, and no fake laws pushed through Congress by Bush can make it so, no matter how many times you say it. To kill a US citizen without even charging him with any crime. These laws will be rescinded, there is no question about that, or this democracy will not survive.

I'll make a deal with you. Show me where in the Constitution this is covered. And don't give me any of Bush's phony laws, any still in place need to be rescinded. This was a man who called the Constitution 'just a piece of paper' and it's shameful that the laws he forced through Congress to try to legalize his criminal intentions, are still in effect.

How will you feel when a Republican President orders the killing of a US citizen without filing any charges and without explaining and providing evidence to back it up. This is not about Awlaqi or Obama, it is about this country's future as a democracy. I guess we all have to decide what we want it to be. Bush supporters made these laws possible by refusing to see the bigger picture. Now many on the Left are doing the same thing. Focusing on the personal, which is very short-sighted, rather than focusing on the country and what is really best for it.

Awlaqi used to be a friend of the Pentagon even though they knew he knew two of the 9/11 hijackers. The public has a right to know the charges against any person killed by this government. 'Trust us' are not words a democratic society should ever be willing to accept, no matter which party is asking.

What was the imminent threat posed by Awlaqi? No one seems to know, but experts on the ME say he was barely known or of any interest to most people there, and he certainly was not a 'leader of Al Queda'. So where was the threat and why was he not charged and arrested over the past ten years when there was plenty of opportunity to do so?