<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Mr. Kovis,</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">It concerns me that you don't know the difference between an opinion <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>piece</SPAN></SPAN> and an <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">article </SPAN></SPAN>strictly written with</div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">empirical </SPAN>facts backed by several sources for accuracy. One is subjective, and the other is objective.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">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.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"When he applies his <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>lawyering</SPAN> skills to <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>counterterrorism</SPAN>, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Qaeda</SPAN> -<FONT color=#ff0000> </FONT><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#ff0000>even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was "an easy one."</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT color=#000000>This is not the full truth, which makes it a lie. </FONT><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#000000>If you read the article which the opinion writer is <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-7><SPAN>referring</SPAN></SPAN> to</FONT></A><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#000000>, 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 <FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#0066cc><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#000000><SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Mukalla</SPAN>, Yemen</FONT>, <FONT color=#000000>or </FONT></FONT>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.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">It appears to me, you reject any policy the US has of eliminating Al <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Qaeda</SPAN>, an organization that <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-10><SPAN>plotted</SPAN></SPAN>, funded, and executed 3,000 American civilians, including children, and would do it again given a chance. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#000000>Donovan J. Arnold</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv916931653indent>From the New York Times via Reader Supported News:<BR></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv916931653indent>"In interviews with The New York Times, three dozen of his current and former advisers described Mr. <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Obama's</SPAN> evolution since taking on the role, without precedent in presidential history, of personally overseeing the shadow war with Al <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Qaeda</SPAN>. They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Guantánamo</SPAN> 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 <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>lawyering</SPAN> skills to <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>counterterrorism</SPAN>, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious
campaign against Al <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Qaeda</SPAN> -<FONT color=#ff0000> </FONT><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#ff0000>even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was "an easy one."<FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#000000> " (My emphasis)<BR></FONT></FONT></div>
<div class=yiv916931653indent><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#000000>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 <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>SDS'er</SPAN> is an apologist for a President who says the decision to kill a fellow human being and fellow American citizen is easy. Chuck Kovis<BR></FONT></FONT></div>
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