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Old 06-01-2012, 07:33 AM
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The same people (I'm sure Dale was one of them) who wailed about water-boarding suspected terrorists as "torture", and have demanded the prosecution of President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney for "war crimes", are now OK, and even enthusiastic, with the current President sitting at his desk shuffling a deck of cards with names of suspected terrorists and deciding who will receive his wrath that day.

(maybe his supporters figure a raining fiery death from above isn't as abhorrent as a faux drowning)

Charles Krauthammer has a column in the Washington Post where he posits the question of a man elected President who went around the world decrying the ethics of the former President and claiming to have turned a "moral page", but who now has demonstrated to the world that he is judge, jury and executioner of unseen combatants in their country and whatever civilians might be around at the time, at his discretion.

I, like Mr. Krauthammer, really have no big problem with this treatment of enemy combatants hiding in civilian clothes surrounded by civilians complicit or not, but as Mr. Krauthammer says;

"it is to question the moral amnesia of those whose delicate sensibilities were offended by the Bush methods that kept America safe for a decade — and who now embrace Obama’s campaign of assassination by remote control."

We also will never be able to gather information from these fried terrorists.

Barack Obama: Drone Warrior - The Washington Post