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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
your second and third problem still exist in Iraq and Afghanistan, didn't they? what if it wasn't OBL? What is a roofer was working on his hut when the missile hits? wouldn't that bother you Ty?
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Yes, it would bother me. As do the deaths of so many non-combatant Iraqis who have died while we try introduce them to the wonders of democracy.
I don't understand your thinking, since you don't seem to have a principle here as much as a neat trick of turning questions back on the other side. I think our political systems evolved to favoring the rule of law over hundreds of years for good and sounds reasons, and that a "conservative" position would be to defend and respect the rule of law. I hear a lot of conservatives (but maybe not "conservatives") suggesting the war on terror demands that we place a whole lot of unbridled, unreviewable power in the hands of the executive branch, notwithstanding that when it was Janet Reno returning Elian to Cuba and Bill Clinton trying to kill OBL with a cruise missile, they professed not to trust the judgment of the executive branch at all.
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