Reply #20: No. He cannot make that decision on his own--this is not a dictatorship. [View All]

[Evergreen Emerald]

We have checks and balances in place. Our President cannot make the decision to kill someone without using our system of laws. Our citizens--no matter how awful Bush, or Cheney, or even Obama thinks they are--are protected by our laws. We are a country of laws. He had no legal basis for killing an American Citizen under the facts presented.

You miss my point. You don't (or shouldn't) want the decision to kill an American Citizen without due process to be in the hands of one person, no matter how much you trust him. Cause, the guy at the White House is not always one to trust. That ideal is foundational to our democracy and what separates us from Iranian or Turkish-type prisons.