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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Note also, when we did blow up a car with a guy who was part of the Cole bombing, in Yeman, the liberals on this board were shocked that W would go so far as to act in a way that does not give the man who killed dozens of US sailors due process. If W had okay'd the assination of this guy, would you have brought up due process isssues?
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I think you're making that up, Hank. (Or, rather, perhaps you believe it because eventually your memory of past events warps to fit your caricature of the battle between good and evil writ small that is this Board.)
I remember that assassination, I remember some discussion here, and I remember thinking the assassination was probably a good move -- though a bit risky. It may be that I misremember, and that many "Liberals" were "shocked," but I seem to recall that -- to the extent there was criticism it focused more on the cost/benefit risk/reward analysis for our foreign policy rather than the idea that Abdul Terrorist Roaming Free in Foreign Nation deserved due process.
Same thing for Zarqawi. Really, the analysis shifts only once he's in our custody, because of the international conventions wee have signed regarding treatment of prisoners.
If I'm wrong, I 'm sure one of the ouraged masses will pipe up"
S_A_M
