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ProSense

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2. This is going to be key:

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 03:34 AM

Feb 2013

“As I and ten other senators told the President yesterday, if individual Americans choose to take up arms against the United States, there will clearly be some circumstances in which the President has the authority to use lethal force against those Americans, just as President Lincoln had the authority to use force against the Confederate Army during the Civil War..."

Beyond that precedent, it appears that the questions are designed to clarify the process and, primarily, to ensure that it's actually targeting people who take up arms against the U.S.

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US Senator Ron Wyden, statement on the DOJ killing americans memo [View all] Ichingcarpenter Feb 2013 OP

Ron Wyden, liberal democratic Oregon is saying he is FOR DRONES graham4anything Feb 2013 #1

Black or White? davidpdx Feb 2013 #6

Yes, I am for it. Ron and I are on the same side. We are for it. graham4anything Feb 2013 #10

This is his point Ichingcarpenter Feb 2013 #11

after the fact. Not preannounced before the fact. graham4anything Feb 2013 #13

The President's argument is only valid if no mistakes are made. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #22

Truman dropped a bomb. Were all those people guilty? graham4anything Feb 2013 #24

I think there's a difference... HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #25

The cold war is dead.that is so 1980s. This is 2013. No borders, new enemies. graham4anything Feb 2013 #26

No he is not. Coyotl Feb 2013 #18

This is going to be key: ProSense Feb 2013 #2

Exactly. What's so difficult about that Cha Feb 2013 #23

I personally would like to back it up a bit, ronnie. If say, russia declared that it's at war with HiPointDem Feb 2013 #3

+a million n/t Catherina Feb 2013 #4

Civilized countries like the US and Russia would resolve it without unilateral action... EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #7

'these joke countries'? that comment and the attitude behind it is the problem. they're a HiPointDem Feb 2013 #9

My thoughts Ichingcarpenter Feb 2013 #5

This is how evil begins-subtley, reasonably. bubbayugga Feb 2013 #8

Burning infidels at the stack was all very exactingly regulated by a set of laws, slavery too Coyotl Feb 2013 #17

I am against this policy ReRe Feb 2013 #12

How many disappeared are there? Coyotl Feb 2013 #19

Wyden and Udall tried warning us about USA PATRIOT Act secret laws and COULDN'T. Octafish Feb 2013 #14

Yeah and the Patriot Act Ichingcarpenter Feb 2013 #16

To be accused is to be convicted Ichingcarpenter Feb 2013 #20

Then exploded. Octafish Feb 2013 #21

"Every American has the right to know when their government believes that it is allowed to kill them Coyotl Feb 2013 #15