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The Northerner

(5,040 posts)
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 04:24 PM Jun 2012

Kill the government kill list program

The president of the United States oversees a top secret program that places suspected terrorists, including Americans, on a "kill list." They are essentially marked for death.

President Obama, it was revealed in a New York Times story, personally approves the kills, which are carried out by drone strikes in other countries, such as Pakistan and Yemen, and are often messy affairs in which people who happen to be nearby also get blown up.

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Should Americans allow the president the power to personally single out American citizens as suspects, pass judgment on them and carry out death sentences in secret?

Should Americans accept that what amounts to assassinations are conducted by their government based on criteria and legal positions that are kept secret?

Should Americans approve of their government conducting targeted killings of suspects in countries with which America is not at war?


Read more: http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/opinion/editorial/ci_20773678/kill-government-kill-list-program
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Kill the government kill list program (Original Post) The Northerner Jun 2012 OP
Fear Obama. Bolo Boffin Jun 2012 #1
Image from Rove's PAC ... not surprised really. JoePhilly Jun 2012 #2
Just putting things that go well together together. n/t Bolo Boffin Jun 2012 #3
You mean anti-Obama attacks and Rove propaganda? JoePhilly Jun 2012 #4
Better Believe It... Wait Wut Jun 2012 #5
Oh SNAP!!!! JoePhilly Jun 2012 #6
Anti-war is now anti-Obama. Got it. Luminous Animal Jun 2012 #7
This is just the anti-war position you're advocating for? Bolo Boffin Jun 2012 #8
Humm ... I'm not anti-war, I agreed with Bush on Afgansitan initially ... JoePhilly Jun 2012 #10
I didn't agree with Bush on Afghanistan or Iraq and I don't agree Luminous Animal Jun 2012 #11
I was just reading the Canon City Daily when I came across an op-ed FSogol Jun 2012 #9
Some of don't like the perpetual war on terror, no matter which president it is. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2012 #12

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
5. Better Believe It...
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 04:35 PM
Jun 2012

...crap. I just kicked this thread. I purposely try to avoid doing that, but BB's post made me giggle.

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)
7. Anti-war is now anti-Obama. Got it.
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 04:50 PM
Jun 2012

I miss the good old days when anti-war meant that one was a Bush hater.

Bolo Boffin

(23,796 posts)
8. This is just the anti-war position you're advocating for?
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 04:52 PM
Jun 2012

Anti-war recognizes that it takes at least two parties to war, and both are wrong.

Anti-Obama propaganda focuses only on the actions of Obama.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
10. Humm ... I'm not anti-war, I agreed with Bush on Afgansitan initially ...
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 04:59 PM
Jun 2012

until Bush got distracted into Iraq ... I think Obama is doing well to close down both. The killing of OBL was great ... removing our troops is great.

And ... I think that I would rather Obama approve the list of those targeted versus our President leaving such decisions to others.

You remind me of the tea party right wing folks who see a world that is black or white, with no grey.

Both of your groups have been wrong about Obama over and over btw ... he closed down Iraq. Most like you said he never would. Said he'd never end DADT. Said he's never draw down Afghanistan.

You are running out of things to be wrong about.

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)
11. I didn't agree with Bush on Afghanistan or Iraq and I don't agree
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 05:41 PM
Jun 2012

with Obama on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or the Philippines (or whatever other impoverished country our military, CIA, and other government institutions decide to bomb).

I've not once claimed that we wouldn't leave Iraq or Afghanistan. Nor have I ever said that he wouldn't end DADT.

I am against his bombing campaigns being waged in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan because the aftermath is no better and often worse than doing nothing at all.

We've left one country destroyed, its infrastructure in shambles, hundreds of thousands killed and millions of its citizens displaced - homeless and on the brink of starvation. We've left a violent police state where, as Human Rights Watch puts it:

(Baghdad) – Iraq cracked down harshly during 2011 on freedom of expression and assembly by intimidating, beating, and detaining activists, demonstrators, and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012.

In February, Human Rights Watch uncovered a secret detention facility controlled by elite security forces who report to the military office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The same elite divisions controlled Camp Honor, a separate facility in Baghdad where detainees were tortured with impunity.

“Iraq is quickly slipping back into authoritarianism as its security forces abuse protesters, harass journalists, and torture detainees,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Despite U.S. government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind a budding police state.”


But, the west secured its oil contracts. So yippee! We're outta there!

I don't expect anything less in Afghanistan. Totally destroyed an already beleaguered country? Check. Corrupt government friendly to western interests? Check. It's citizens held in terror by terrorists and the military? Check. We'll see what goodies the west will have contracted for in 2013 & 2014.

Obama's list is no kinder or gentler than any one else's list.

FSogol

(45,504 posts)
9. I was just reading the Canon City Daily when I came across an op-ed
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 04:57 PM
Jun 2012
bashing Obama promoting anti war sentiments.

Agenda much?
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