FYI he was on the Yemeni top-ten most wanted list and the Yemeni govt had attempted and failed to kill him via bombing.

So your next best answer is to have the Navy Seals go in under cover of night and kill him, instead of having drones do it. Just to be clear.

What the Yemeni's could / could not do is irrelevent

No... the methods make little, if any difference to the issue.
If it's to be the Navy Seals, their mission is to capture, not kill,
with as little collateral (American or Yemeni) damage as possible.

This doesn't sound like it was an impossible task.

Really? Who is to say? You know what their mission is?


Really? Again, how would you know?

I think they really just went to capture Bin Laden.... :rolleyes:

Not.

:lol: What the fuck does that have to do with this discussion?

It must be noted that the briefing has been produced by the same bureaucracy, which bases its existence on certain assumptions about how America is to behave in the world.

For clarity, am I right in assuming that by "both sides" you mean the Democrats and Republicans not pro-war/anti-war or interventionist/non- interventionist.

I would attribute those same things to the momentum of massive bureaucracies.

The war is on and will stay on until we have a President willing to turn it off by admitting that we have lost Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Nobody will be willing to do that unless he can shift blame to a predecessor, since both parties are lashed to the same mast of this sinking ship, we get no policy change.

So now, under the Lamplighter administration, the Navy Seals have al-Awlaki, on a boat in the Arabian Sea, after one of his henchmen and one Navy Seal has been shot.

But you haven't said enough; it's far from over. What does the Lamplighter administration do with him now?

Find the nearest carrier at sea and bring al-Awlaki back to the US
so he can face trial as an American citizen;
and if convicted, and whatever penalty is ascribed by US laws.

Impossible ? no
Inconvenient ? maybe
High crime or misdemeanor ? no

Totally just kidding. I couldn't resist. :p::blush:;):eyebrow::neutral::eek::cool:

Still you have no freaking clue.

"Find the nearest carrier"; Why? Do you know how much that costs for one dude? A Hellfire missle is so much cheaper. I thought you Liberals wanted to save money?

"Impossible, No."; And you would know this how?

"High crime or misdemeanor?"; That is not a level of assessment required.

He gave up his Rights when he joined the other side.

Here I am defending Obama, who'd-a-thunk-it?:p:

Merc solution: Turn him into chum. Go fishing.

Posted by Lampster:
Never said anything about boats, only the cost. Still not a good plan.

"Paratroops" are not Navy Seals. I was a paratrooper, although I was not a Navy Seal.... That is another story.

That has nothing to do with killing an enemy combatant.

Most certainly they can. They day they rob a bank and point a gun at a cop and that cop kills them, they gave up their right.

President Zero Obama should be stopped via all legal means and we should ensure he is a one term president. :D

wait what? I thought we covered this somewhere.... no?

I have read them. The arguments have failed to convince me that you are correct. Apparently President Zero and his panel of legal experts agree with me.