...and this was our choice for President: the guy who wants to assassinate citizens without charges or a conviction and the other guy who wants to assassinate citizens without charges or a conviction.
Seriously, a person would need an exacto knife to cut out the ever-so-slight differences in policies between our two Presidential candidates (for both 2008 and 2012).

If the Constitution requires the police to get a warrant from a judge before they search the trunk of a person's car I can hardly fathom how someone would object to to the concept of getting clearance from a judge before killing someone. Obviously, even the process of getting clearance from a court will be a joke because it's not an advesarial proceding where anyone will be allowed to cross examine or present conflicting evidence, and whatever happens will never see the light of public scrutiny ofany kind.

Law by executive order is a dictatorship, and a very, very violent one at that.

In a post-rule of law world, the only rule is that might makes right. It is no wonder that countries and individuals are arming themselves to the teeth.

The aggressive warrior species, known as homo-sapiens, has yet to evolve into something more sophisticated.

Would your position be the same if it involved an American citizen voluntarily holed up in bin Laden's compound when he was killed?

I probably would be more concerned about careless killings of civilians in other countries than targeted killings of combatants regardless of country of citizenship.

Yes Sen. McCain, let's put it in the Dept. of Defense where they've developed hummingbird drones to spy on our domestic citizens. I'm sure the oversight that you claim is in place will protect us and our constitutional rights. Not.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-02/video-darpas-nano-hummingbird-spy-drone-action

Sally,

Be very careful of throwing around the term, "combatant". That is something the government uses to justify their actions to avoid actually following the law.

You are also implying that a) Bin-Laden was actually killed in a raid, and that b) he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for 9-11. Both of those have no basis in fact. The FBI has never formally accused Bin-Laden of any crime involving 9-11 and we have absolutely no corroboration of what actually happened at that raid.

Nice redirect from O to McC. O's Policy, but it's all about the angry white haired guy.

The Peace Prize was a just big FY from Europe to Bushie. Nothing to do with Obama. Tim, I stand by what I said regarding bin Laden. (How does Lincoln come out by your definition of government by executive order?)

I hope the concept of "citizen" is wielded as seriously when it comes to voting as it is in this thread.

Sally,
What was Europe so happy about? That we decided to completely destablize the Middle East as part of the "Great Game"? Or was it the financial meltdown that has almost destroyed the Euro?

And Lincoln got killed by having the audacity to finance the war using credit backed by the US government, instead of the big banks.

Nice redirect from O to McC.

The post, like the disgrace it concerns, is bipartisan.