Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
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Osama bin Laden was not eliminated because of any directive from Obama. The plan for taking him out once he was found was put in place by George Bush. Bin Laden was located after Bush left office, and while Obama infested it. It did not require input from Obama. He could have called it off, but he knew that wouldn't play well. But being able to call the raid off is not the same thing as setting the plan in motion. So the senator is correct.
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Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
@George-K said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
I was only joking
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@Jolly said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
The eternal game of Gotcha...
I think you misspelled 'Bollocks'.
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@George-K said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
@George-K said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
You've got something against killing terrorists?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
@George-K said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
You've got something against killing terrorists?
@Jolly said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
@George-K said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
You've got something against killing terrorists?
No, not really. Some on the right (and no doubt on the left, too) have complained about the killing of the American and described it as 'extra-judicial killing of an American citizen' and said that it is unconstitutional, hence my question. I personally don't see why Americans should be treated any differently from everybody else.
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@Jolly said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
@George-K said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment
Neither could American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
You've got something against killing terrorists?
No, not really. Some on the right (and no doubt on the left, too) have complained about the killing of the American and described it as 'extra-judicial killing of an American citizen' and said that it is unconstitutional, hence my question. I personally don't see why Americans should be treated any differently from everybody else.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
The argument being that it's perfectly fine to kill foreigners, but American terrorists are special in some way?
You've got something against killing terrorists?
No, not really. Some on the right (and no doubt on the left, too) have complained about the killing of the American and described it as 'extra-judicial killing of an American citizen' and said that it is unconstitutional, hence my question. I personally don't see why Americans should be treated any differently from everybody else.
I agree with you for the most part. My point is that the outrage depends on who's doing the killing. Insert whatever POTUS you want, but the argument is always the same.
Souleimani - OrangeMan bad
al-Awlaki - crickets (at least from those who complain about OrangeMan or Bushitler.Of course, those can be easily flipped at your convenience.
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I wouldn't have thought that it was possible to simultaneously complain about Obama not killing any terrorists and to also complain about his illegal killing of a terrorist.
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I wouldn't have thought that it was possible to simultaneously complain about Obama not killing any terrorists and to also complain about his illegal killing of a terrorist.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
I wouldn't have thought that it was possible to simultaneously complain about Obama not killing any terrorists and to also complain about his illegal killing of a terrorist.
I didn't say that, at all, did I?
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No, I wasn't digging at you, GK, just the nature of people.
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@taiwan_girl said in Osama bin Laden could not be reached for comment:
I think it's disingenuous to put together a list of terrorists who were killed during a war battle, label them all leaders, and then make the claim that Obama had something to do with them being killed. He had nothing to do with their deaths. What he DID have hands on involvement with was to set a bunch of captured terrorists free (gitmo), trade a dozen or so for the release of a traitor, and was literally personally responsible for causing the rise of a terrorist group called ISIS.
