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blackspade

(10,056 posts)
15. These are assassinations.
Wed Feb 13, 2013, 02:27 AM
Feb 2013

Setting aside the possibility of drone strikes in the US, I find it outrageous that we are launching 'drone' strikes at all.
What has happened to Democrats, that most of us are supportive of these types of strikes?
What many consider a 'benign' tool in Obama's hands is a total nightmare in the wrong hands.

I'll ask this question of folks that support drone strikes:
Would you want this power to be in the hands of any current republican 'leader'? or even a future one?
If the answer is 'no', then it should be obvious that this should never have been a rabbit hole traveled.
The fact that there is no judicial oversight and no public disclosure of the specific legal justifications for these strikes makes it impossible to rest easy about or support this policy.

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