[Vision2020] Beating dead horses

Wed May 30 08:25:27 PDT 2012

Wayne Price inquires:

“How about staying home and minding our own business? “

We tried that once, Mr. Price, immediately following World War 1.  It seems
we simply could not turn our backs on the expansion of Nazism in Europe.

Perhaps political isolationism would be more appropriate.

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Wayne Price
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:17 AM
To: Donovan Arnold
Cc: vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Beating dead horses

How about staying home and minding our own business?  

Wayne

On May 30, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

Mr. Price,

What specific policy do you think the US should instigate that will result
in zero innocent casualties, or less casualties than we currently inflict,
about 250 a year, according to Human Watch.

Donovan J. Arnold

From: Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com>
To: Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> 
Cc: vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Beating dead horses

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.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaed
a.html> 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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