Should A US President have a kill list?

[targus]

You, along with everyone else knows why. Obama is a democrat, Bush was a republican.

If Romney wins in November, this type of action will be looked at as a brilliant way to deal with the terrorists.

"Wanted dead or alive" doesn't mean "Go kill them".

It means go out and bring them back to stand trial. If they are killed resisting that happens.

Obama isn't giving anyone a chance to be tried. He is just killing them where they stand.

BIG DIFFERENCE.

 

[Robert Snow]

"Wanted dead or alive" doesn't mean "Go kill them".

It means go out and bring them back to stand trial. If they are killed resisting that happens.

Obama isn't giving anyone a chance to be tried. He is just killing them where they stand.

BIG DIFFERENCE.

Like I said, if it were Romney or Bush, you would be singing a different tune.

 

[targus]

Like I said, if it were Romney or Bush, you would be singing a different tune.

Nothing but speculation on your part.

 

[mandym]

Nothing but speculation on your part.

Because he just wants it to be true not because he believes or knows it to be true.

 

[targus]

According to Obama...

If you associate with terrorists then you are a terrorist.

Doesn't it follow then if you associate with Marxists and Socialists then you are a Marxist and a Socialist?

 

[Sapper Woody]

Personally, I am ok with a "kill list", but not with "terrorist by association" in this case. If a known terrorist can be cleanly killed with no civcas, then I'm all for it. However, I think that there needs to be absolute proof. And a person taking credit for an act is proof enough for me.

"Wanted, Dead or Alive" sounds better than "Kill List", but it's essentially the same thing. It's much easier to kill someone today than it is to go in and arrest them.

 

[LadyEagle]

Moving this to Politics since we are on Page 3. LE

 

[billwald]

None of you would complain if Iran (or the Mexican Cartels) put out a reward - dead or dead list of US citizens?

 

[targus]

None of you would complain if Iran (or the Mexican Cartels) put out a reward - dead or dead list of US citizens?

Hey, billy.

Did you even bother to read any of the posts in thread before jumping in?

It sure doesn't look that way.

 

[OldRegular]

NO! and again NO!

 

[poncho]

Due process? Oh that's an old outdated notion of proving one is guilty before killing them.

 

[OldRegular]

According to Obama...

If you associate with terrorists then you are a terrorist.

Doesn't it follow then if you associate with Marxists and Socialists then you are a Marxist and a Socialist?

I will buy that!:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

 

[LadyEagle]

Probably, the people on the kill list would have preferred to be water boarded, but that is considered torture by obama and his ilk.

 

[carpro]

So how can the President justify a kill list after denigrating Gitmo and wanting civilian trials for terrorists?

Simply by not being George W. Bush.

If Bush had such a list, democrats, including Obama, would be screaming for his impeachment followed by a criminal trial.

 

[saturneptune]

Who knows if there has ever been such a list? We are not privy to the inner workings of government. I do agree with Carpro though, all things being equal, the media would go after a Republican hit list much sooner than a Democratic hit list.

The closest thing I ever have seen documented was Nixon's enemies list Carpro, do you remember the list of all the murders associated with Clinton around the Whitewater time?

 

[mandym]

Simply by not being George W. Bush.

If Bush had such a list, democrats, including Obama, would be screaming for his impeachment followed by a criminal trial.

It is not know if he ever had one. But we do know Obama does and is being protected by the media.

 

[freeatlast]

Simply by not being George W. Bush.

If Bush had such a list, democrats, including Obama, would be screaming for his impeachment followed by a criminal trial.

President Bush did enough other things that should have brought his impeachment, but it did not happen. In fact what he did was far worse then what Clinton did who was impeached.

 

[poncho]

What's to stop Obama or future presidents from killing political opponents and activists who's only crime is disagreement with their policies? Anyone can be accused of terrorism or supporting terrorism. No need for charges. No need for evidence. No need for trial. Tossing out the idea of due process and giving one man or a tiny group of men this kind of power over life and death doesn't make me feel any safer.