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Obama Wrong to Rub Out Al-Awlaki (Matthew Rothschild, September 30, 2011, Progressive)

He was a U.S. citizen, after all.

He had never been indicted for a crime here, much less convicted of one, much less sentenced to death.

Still, the President rubbed him out.

We are told that he was a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and there is some evidence that his preachings influenced Al Qaeda terrorists, including a few of the 9/11 attackers and the shoe bomber.

He's no angel. No doubt about that.

But does that give the President the right to summarily execute a U.S. citizen?

Did FDR have the right to murder Ezra Pound during World War II for vocally supporting the fascists?

President Obama asserts that right, not just to bump off Al-Awlaki but also other U.S. citizens, too.

On what basis?

Even the Left can't be so soft-headed as to think FDR wouldn't have bombed the broadcast booth Pound used in Italy if he could have.

Posted by oj at September 30, 2011 2:35 PM
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