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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
For a Secret Agent Man, you seem to be farther behind the times than Austin Powers. Even the assassination ban only applied to, uhm, foreign leaders, right?
And who is this "we as a nation"? I hope you don't think peanut-boy, google-boy, Bubba and 3G reflect the choice of the nation. In this regard, Atticus and 3G indicated that they don't believe in executing domestic threats under at least some circumstances, or at least they don't believe that Chile's not-necessarily-legitimate government should have been able to do so. However, I can't imagine that there are really any prohibitions against the U.S. government executing known foreign threats. Were there?
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Behave! I did say "generally".
Say what you will, and times have changed, but those two folks were President of the U.S. for 12 years. I think that position(were it possible to frame it neutrally and as applied to a generic "teorrist" figure well prior to 9/11) would achieve support from a substantial bunch of Americans.
[Dream Sequence:]
"Hey Pres. Bush I -- we got this bearded Islamic dude over here -- and he says he don't like the U.S. none. And he's got a bunch of money, and some friends with guns, and he says everyone should go kick your ass, and that he's gonna do it. But he ain't done nothing to you yet."
"Well, Jimbo. I say we track him down and put a bullet in his head -- wouldn't be prudent to take any chances. We've got guys who do that, don't we??"
You think?
S_A_M
