Who should Obama send the SEAL team after next?

It's pretty straightforward. Since the SEAL team has proved itself as a popular problem solving method, what problem should they solve next? Implicit in my question is that these targets could be taken alive if possible.

I would be happy with any of most of these.

as some sort of assissination squad.

Jeremy Scahill
May 13, 2010

Midway through his press conference at the Pentagon Thursday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the US commander referred to as "The Pope," was asked—in a rather innocuous way—about the role US special forces assassination teams are playing in Afghanistan ahead of the planned summer Kandahar offensive. A reporter raised the issue of "the role of your Special Mission Units in targeting Taliban hard-core insurgents: Are they being used in Kandahar City to go after some of these assassination teams?"

SMUs are direct action teams composed of all-star special forces operators— the elite of the elite—drawn from the Navy SEALs, Delta Force and other "Tier One" special forces, working with the Joint Special Operations Command. Since 9-11, these teams have been the premiere force in capturing or killing "high-value targets" around the world.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/gen-mcchrystal-questioned-about-secret-assassination-teams

What would you call them?

the POTUS having the power to order the assassination of anyone he names as an 'enemy combatant', which it appears a lot of people here do, then it is not just an assertion that this president or any other can, we are told, lawfully, use the Seals as an assination squad to kill that person targeted by the POTUS.

Of course I don't agree with any of those Bush policies, which is why I supported Democrats. And apparently I was fooled.

I voted for 'Other,' with the thought Obama could send the SEALs to get me next for continuing to insist that we not extra-judicially assassinate anyone :)

JK, but Greenwald's latest should give us all pause:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/07/awlaki/index.html

It could really be anyone, couldn't it?

kiddin' of course but you get the picture I'm sure, if not then I worry for you.

I cleaned my whole apartment, and I still didn't find it. At least I have a clean apartment.

cause when I loose something and am looking for it I usually leave a mess so you've got one leg up on me :-)

anyone. Maybe you have some inside knowledge you'd like to share with us all.

Unrecced for assuming crap not in evidence and for writing a push poll.

targeting one specific person, that means he is going to use them to target anyone and everyone.

This is one of the worst push polls I've ever seen here, and some of the options are disgusting. It's a fantasy world I don't live in, for sure.

Do you think all those guys were trained for this one mission only? That would be a pretty short career.

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therefore all our evil present and former government officials should be brought the bar of justice and their punishment should fit the crimes they committed.Bush/Chaney administration,Gitmo will be your new home away from home.Every congress person that voted for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan you are fired go home never to enter Washington again.

It would seem to be a logical progression of the GWOT... :shrug:

Maybe it's because someone in government has half a brain cell left.

If you killed or captured all the current drug lord, you would simply cause a temporary surge in the price of the product through scarcity, and the potential profits would draw new dealers in to take their places.

Some call it the Kochtopus. Their tentacles are everywhere and into every GOP pocket.

But only if they need to disappear a terrorist suspect. Look, Woodward covered this issue, he says the Bush admin bragged "it's why we're winning" the war in Iraq and told him not to report on it. So, according to Woodward's book, he refused to tell his readers anything else, lest they compromise the US gains in Iraq by revealing that Bush was lying about the surge.

brutal and criminal methods used during the Reagan Admin in Central America. Murder Incorporated. Not a war, an illegal, murderous operation for which no one has yet been held accountable. I remember the reports of the bodies, clearly assassinated piling up in Iraq. It is despicable that these methods are now being used by the person I supported so that these crimes could be stopped and the criminals dealt with.

And he didn't win the war in Iraq. Iraq is a mess, its people our out in the streets protesting and being mowed down for doing so by our puppet government. Sadr is threatening to mobilize his forces again if the attacks on peaceful protestors continue.

As long as there is a US backed government there, it is not a free country. And as Manning reported, torture is still going there. We have tens of thousands of mercenaries in the country, no doubt protecting the 'businessmen' who are stealing the Iraqis blind. Over four million Iraqis are still either refugees or displaced in their own country.

Their infrastructure is destroyed and the rest of the Arab world uses Iraq to demonstrate what they do NOT want to have happen to their countries. We are hated and despised for what was done to that country, not just in the ME, but in every decent country in the world.

Winning, what does that mean? We are weakened by these criminal wars, the American people gain nothing from them, But a few, a small number of greedy, inhumane monsters do profit from them.

Among populations we don't like (Shi'ites) or who stand to deprive us of important oil contracts (unlike, say Ghaddafi).

apparently, humor isn't their strong suit.

:)

tone here--or at least think they can.

We'd have to take him alive but he needs to be put in a rubber room for a few years--both Boner and the teabagger.

We've got more cleaning up to do.

I can't find that bastard anywhere.

'Old timer, who you gonna kill next?'

Aren't we honor-bound to intervene in a situation like that? Or are we just going to sit here and wring our hands and let gay people be slaughtered en masse?

:shrug:

:D