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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:29 AM Original message |
Has the US been living under martial law since the passage of the AUMF? |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. The AUMF doesn't say the President can kill anyone. So your premise is dead from get go. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The President can execute anyone, anytime |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. True, Manny. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Care to rethink that? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. +10 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Except a lawyer would tell you that there are standards |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. What argument? The entire process is in a closed, unsupervised, unquestionable loop |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Well, the brave people at CCR and ACLU have mounted an argument. |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. The solution to voiding the AUMF is to elect a woman. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Not just any woman. |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Your welcome. |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Any congressperson can introduce a resolution to supercede it. Why hasn't a single one done that? |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. No, it has not. n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. Giving one person the power to order the killing of anyone reeks of the "Divine Right of Kings". |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. You could try reading the AUMF. It outlines who the President can act against. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Pretty much anyone he wants to. |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. Long Live the King |
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mrmpa (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
19. What is AUMF? .................. |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 12:46 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. AUMF---->Google= see below |
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mrmpa (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 09:50 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Thank you very, very much. eom |
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