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On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:31:39 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 05 May 2011 16:45:41 -0400, Harryk
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On Thu, 05 May 2011 12:31:39 -0600,
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On 05/05/2011 12:04 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:57:05 -0400,
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I am happy that Obama has repealed the flawed Carter policy of not
targeting people for assassination.
Maybe some day we can return to the Eisenhower policy of shaping civil
war outcomes using covert means and without sending in a 150,000
troops.

It was certainly clear that we could have taken OBL alive but they
made the right choice and blew his head off on site.

Plume, before you protest that, are you really saying a SEAL could
not have wrestled a sickly, 54 year old, unarmed man to the ground if
he wanted to? They saw him, they shot him end of story.

I prefer to deal with what we know...or were told. We were told Osama
was given an opportunity to surrender and live or go out in a blaze of
what he probably assumed was glory. We were told he chose the latter.

That's no different than the choices the police in this country offer
dangerous fugitives who they have cornered or who respond by opening
fire. It usually is referred to as "Death by Cop."

Assuming that was the case, I don't have a problem with the outcome. A
trial would have been long and messy, but it is our way to try criminals
and prove their guilt in a court of law. To dispose of criminals
otherwise brings us down to the level of the terrorists.
The reports coming back from the SEALs is that there was only one
armed man there, who they shot right away. It is clear they wanted to
kill OBL. I think that was a wise choice.
Yep, saved millions in legal, pandering, pussy footing around, no court
and judge costs and no expensive keep.

Gitmo isn't needed, a mass execution is.

You can't execute those people but we could have a horrible plane
crash where the crew were the only ones with parachutes.

Did you ever hear the Willie Nelson song about the detainees? (on the
Highwayman album I think)

I guess I'll never understand righties and their disdain for the rule of
law or custom or behavior considered appropriate for Americans. When the
government engages in this sort of execution, it is no better than those
it executes.

I guess the question is what are we going to do with the several
hundred people we are holding. Two presidents agree they will never
see the inside of a regular court room and they are too dangerous to
turn loose. I don't see anyone on the GOP horizon that has a different
opinion. The Dems are going to stick with Obama and I don't see his
policy changing

The number is 172 unless others have been released.

Obama wanted to house them in SuperMax or equiv. But, Congress said
no.