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Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile'
sanzibar writes "Not satisfied with the legal conclusion of the DOJ, the Obama administration found other in-house lawyers willing to declare a bomb dropped from a drone is not 'hostile'. The strange conclusion has big implications in determining the President's compliance with the law. If drone strikes are in fact hostile and the Libyan campaign continues past Sunday, he may very well be breaking the law."
In other words, unlike Obama, Dubya got congressional approval for his war(s).
Dubya fed us a huge pile of lies for his favorite war, and completely dropped the ball on his less favorite one.
More importantly though Dubya didn't call either of his wars a "war", because that would be too messy. Just as we didn't say we "invaded" Iraq, we instead said that we "liberated" it. But ultimately Dubya gave lip service to the "war powers resolution" only because he knew that he had strong enough majorities in both chambers that he could have asked to invade Antarctica and they would have given that to him as well. Had there been enough people in either chamber to deny him anything, he would have done the same thing that we are seeing President Lawnchair doing.
And for that matter, if it had been McCain elected instead, we would probably already have boots on the ground, since the republicans in the house would not have opposed his request for anything related to the military.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Right on, man. We have had great results to show for backing Islamist guerrillas in the past. What could go wrong?
No. Unmanned drones dropping laser guided bombs delivers one thing: death. Not peace. Not justice. Bloody, awful, indiscriminate, pointless death.
Get off your high horse about fucking torturing people. Your man is fucking killing people. All on his own. Without consulting the Congress. He just decided he could go start fucking killing people. If you want to say that it's ideologically justified killing, then you can be my guess to stand hand in hand in that position with George W Bush.