Political & Elections

If GWB had been the president who got OBL and Alwlaqi, I think the reaction would have been about the same: praise from most elected officials regardless of party, general approval among the public, and an outpouring of concern and questions over its constitutionality from the same people who have done so in this case. 

Bush would have come under fire, as Obama has, on the constitutionality question, but the difference would have been that Fox and the rest of Murdoch media would have crowed for days about it, making sure that the Republican administration got credit, their viewer/readers bathed in mental images of Bush being carried off the field on the shoulders of a grateful nation.

  Of course, Obama isn't going to get that from Fox. The NY Post columnist managed to write a lengthy piece praising the elimination of Alw. and how crucial it was to the war against terrorism without once mentioning Obama, as though the CIC really had nothing to do with it.   Something about that 'D' behind his name.

   And, unfortunately for O, the so-called sycophantic left-leaning media probably spent as much or more time  hand-wringing over the constitutional question than pointing out how successful this president has been at decimating Al-Quaeda.

Abso-freakin'-lutely!

Sidenote: Once again, the forum gremlins have mischievously left most of the quote from jazzy outside the box...

-- Edited by Poetsheart on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 08:35:41 PM

-- Edited by Poetsheart on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 08:37:39 PM

We could have killed him anywhere in the world since the "war" on terrorism is global. Now England would probably not take too kindly to our dropping a drone bomb on one of our own in Piccadilly Square, but evidently, the Constitution does not preclude it.

Yemen is a war zone?

We are making sure of that. The entire world is a war zone in this made up "war" on terrorism that this lefty is not so happy President Obama bought in to. I believe these drone attacks will do more harm than good. We take out one terrorist but create how many in the process. In the eyes of the civilians in these countries, who are the terrorists?

I admit that I temporarily forgot that this happened in Yemen; that said, how many would still be squawking if it had happened in a war zone?  I'm not sure how many constitutional rights an American has while on foreign soil and while acting in presumably treasonist ways.  Obviously, if he'd been on US soil, the hit could not have been ordered.  There must be some fine line of distinction.

" Will we allow other countries to summarily execute their citizens on our soil, if those countries determine they are a threat? What if a few of our citizens are collageral damage?"

I'd suspect that if other countries had figured out that the head of a major terrorist organization that targets and assassinates innocents worldwide was in the US, we'd be on the spot helping them. Collateral damage or not. Doubt they'd be going back to their country of birth for a trial. Apparently the Yemenis agreed with me, seeing as, "The Yemenis, after questioning a suspect, passed on information about Awlaki’s general whereabouts." Have you heard them loudly complaining about his demise?

I'm not sure that in a war zone in a foreign country that Americans who are helping the enemy are typically given due process.  I imagine during WWII or whenever, people like this were considered treasonists and were executed on site.

I have no problem for these calls to kill terrorists. Glad PBO has kept us safe from these whackjobs. Like you SLS, the fact that it's now acceptable by the ones screaming for GWB to be in jail, is perplexing. Funny, what a 'D' behind the presidents name can do to the hard-core Left.

I think the Patriot Act allows it. What does it matter. We lost a lot of freedoms after 911, especially if you are one to be a good citizen. Hairybus Corporation is suspended.