[Vision2020] Beating dead horses

[Wayne Price]

Sunil,

It's right next to the section that talks about it being OK to invade  
the sovereign territory of another country, either by sending in  
troops, or aircraft, or just bombing them, and because it's the United  
States, it's NOT an act of war!

It wasn't right when the Bush Administration did it, it's not right  
now, and it won't be right if a  Romney  Administration does it, God  
forbid!  One of the big issues as I see it is that once you loose the  
moral high ground in the so called "War on Terrorism", you can't get  
it back, and we appear to have lost it years ago.


Wayne




On May 30, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:

> Chuck (or is it Chick?)
>
> I'm looking for the section in the Constitution that says the  
> President, on his own say so, can kill US citizens, without due  
> process. Where is it?
>
> Here's Greenwald on this issue, yesterday:
>
> http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/obama_the_warrior/singleton/
>
> Here's something to be proud of: "Mr. Obama embraced a disputed  
> method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him  
> in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as  
> combatants, according to several administration officials, unless  
> there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them  
> innocent." (From this other Greenwald article yesterday: http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/singleton/ 
>  )
>
> Yep, if we killed them, they must have been militants, unless  
> someone proves otherwise, after they're dead. Of course, when we  
> send drones back to kill rescuers and mourners, it may be hard to  
> prove the innocence of the murder victims. And we should believe the  
> state, because Obama's president, right? If he says it, it must be  
> true? How many Obama supporters took the same position when Bush was  
> president?
>
> How can we 'eliminate al Quaeda' when every time we blow up people,  
> we help them recruit?
>
> Sunil
>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 16:59:39 -0700
> From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> To: ckovis at turbonet.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Beating dead horses
>
> Mr. Kovis,
>
> It concerns me that you don't know the difference between an opinion  
> piece and an article strictly written with
> empirical facts backed by several sources for accuracy. One is  
> subjective, and the other is objective.
>
> You can post 100s of opinion pieces by anti-war, anti-Obama, or anti- 
> current US policy writers, it doesn't substantiate your claims that  
> Obama is targeting innocent civilians.
>
> "When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is  
> usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al  
> Qaeda - even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a  
> decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was "an easy one."
>
> This is not the full truth, which makes it a lie. If you read the  
> article which the opinion writer is referring to, you would see that  
> Obama has only targeted 15 Yemen with American ties, all plotting an  
> attack on American soil. It doesn't matter if someone is a cleric  
> from Mukalla, Yemen, or Moscow, Russia, or Moscow, Idaho, if they  
> are plotting to kill Americans in the United States or elsewhere, I  
> say more power to the President to bring a drone plane down on their  
> head.
>
> It appears to me, you reject any policy the US has of eliminating Al  
> Qaeda, an organization that plotted, funded, and executed 3,000  
> American civilians, including children, and would do it again given  
> a chance.
>
> Donovan J. Arnold
>
>
>
> From: Chuck Kovis <ckovis at turbonet.com>
> To: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:32 PM
> Subject: Beating dead horses
>
> From the New York Times via Reader Supported News:
> "In interviews with The New York Times, three dozen of his current  
> and former advisers described Mr. Obama's evolution since taking on  
> the role, without precedent in presidential history, of personally  
> overseeing the shadow war with Al Qaeda.  They describe a  
> paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required  
> to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but  
> approves lethal action without hand-wringing. While he was adamant  
> about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim  
> world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and  
> dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills to  
> counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his  
> ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda - even when it comes to killing  
> an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told  
> colleagues was "an easy one."  "  (My emphasis)
> I opposed Democrat Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.  I oppose  
> Democrat Barack Obama and the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Iran  
> Wars.  When you have a constitutional law professor saying that it  
> is "an easy one" to kill a fellow U.S. citizen without what passes  
> now days for "due process,"  don't expect me to go along with it.  I  
> find it disgusting that more people in this country don't have the  
> guts to put a stop to this at the ballot box.  As a country, we will  
> never learn, when  a former SDS'er is an apologist for a President  
> who says the decision to kill a fellow human being and fellow  
> American citizen is easy.         Chuck Kovis
>
>
>
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