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Killing in Self Defense Is Not "Assassination"

Anonymous908 Wrote: Nov 20, 2012 6:49 PM

"I thought spies got trials? At least they do in civilized countries" Be careful what you say. In the United States of all places you are no longer gaurenteed a trail. According to the NDAA signed by Obama and openly supported by Romney the government can detain you and hold you indefinately without trial. The United States has carried out assassinations of American citizens without trial. Don't be so sure our wildly out of control government doesn't do the same things our enemies do.

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Killing in Self Defense Is Not "Assassination"

When Seal Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, no one described it as an “assassination.” Why not? Because Osama wasn’t a civilian political leader; he was a terrorist combatant who had declared war on America, and tried to continue his attacks in any way possible.

Why, then, have the New York Times and other media outlets referred to Israel’s killing of Ahmed Jabaari in Gaza as “an assassination?” He was the military commander of a terrorist organization, Hamas, which remains at war with Israel, and takes pride in aiming deadly rockets at Israeli civilian targets every day. There’s...