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In reply to the discussion: Bipartisan Resolution to Compel White House to Release Legal Justification for Drone Strikes [View all]Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)but I am not. In addition, I DO NOT like the idea of one man sifting through a notebook of people and choosing who to kill. This defies our ethics and international law. If W had done this, everyone on DU would be apoplectic.
In addition, I don't trust the info he is being given. The CIA has a history of doing what they want to improve their status no matter what it does for our country. The administration had to rush around and make guidelines on drones in case Romney won. They didn't want him or his advisers killing people willy nilly. Somebody needs to watch the watchers so that the President has a clue about their machinations.
I am not advocating letting terrorists run wild with their plans. However, people conveniently forget that if George Bush had ordered to be kept apprised of what bin Laden was up to and other reports, he and his minions would have had a clue. He was a known quantity who had a verifiable record of terrorist acts.
I have no idea why we are killing this or that person except that they seem to be 2nd in command Al Qaeda. We have killed eleventy billion of them so far. We could be killing certain people for a variety of reasons including taking out someone our Middle East allies have a problem with. As many have pointed out, our actions are probably creating more enemies by killing innocent people. We are on a slippery slope and heading down.
As far as Hitler goes, there is no guarantee that drones would have taken him out. He managed to escape some pretty good attempts on his life. In addition, the allies had a clue about the concentration camps. Whether this information was ignored or disbelieved, I don't know. I don't remember their liberation being a priority in our strategy.
And don't even start about WMD. We went there once and got Iraq in our lap. I don't doubt that they are being developed, but some of the nastiest ones don't need major lab space. Google ricin.