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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:19 AM Original message |
How do you define assassination? |
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LiberalArkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. Silly person - Assassination is what the other guys do. |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. Killing Osama was an assassination |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Osama killing 3,000 people on 9/11 was an assassination |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. When did simple facts become so controversial? |
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CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Facts are controversial because of the use of spin |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. What would you call it? Targeted killing? |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I always understood assassination to be the deliberate killing of a politically prominent person |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Imo, it has more to do with killing a leader than with politics. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 12:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Yikes! Really? |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Really, you people |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Grown ups deal with their choices. That has nothing to do with |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. I don't care what you call it or what you think I call it |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. So who do you think we shouldn't kill without trial? |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I'd draw one line at people who don't commit mass murder |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. If that no good incompetent son of a bitch Bush had killed bin Laden |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. So Gaddafi you're cool with killing I assume. What about Kim Jong Il? |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. What you assume |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:20 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. What does Bush and Cheney have to do with this? |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. You are a blatant ass-umptionist |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:36 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. lol, jesus. You are saying we shouldn't put a bullet in the head of gitmo detainees because... |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:44 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. So you ass-ume |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. All I asked you was what evidance is there that Osama was behind 9/11. Why wouldn't you answer this? |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. And I'd like to ask you for evidence that Osama wasn't behind 9/11 |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:16 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. I'd also like Glenn Beck to provide evidance that he didn't murder a women in 1991 |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:21 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Move to Iran? |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:26 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Again, the name calling doesnt make up for the fact that your idea of a justice system... |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. But I am a witch and I can fly |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. I guess we'll just have to leave it here. Have a nice day |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:31 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. You too. |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:38 AM Response to Reply #39 |
57. The trove of information is beginning to come out |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #14 |
43. Because people disagree with you... |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:16 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Not becuase you disagree with me |
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NoGOPZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
54. 'You people'? You don't like us? |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
3. Sometimes, as in the case of Don Siegelman they completely lie and write |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. Politically motivated killing. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
6. "Targeted killing" is like "enhanced interrogation" is like "collateral damage" Weenie words |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. +1 |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
7. I spell it Dr. David Kelly |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
8. You define it by the number of lives you save........ |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. With a dictionary. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. Here is the official US Army definition |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
15. Assassinations are done by people outside of an order of battle |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
16. The dictionary defines assassination. We don't have to. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. My pocket Oxford says "kill for political or religious motives." |
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quinnox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
18. assassinate |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. Killing of a prominent person that you do not personally know n/t |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
23. I consider assasination to be the killing without prior trial/conviction |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. The Mafia and/or the CIA call them "necessary". |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
31. I don't make up definitions, just as I don't make up math formulae. I use the dictionary. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
37. OBL decalred war on us. |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:53 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Does that only apply to this one, never ending war? |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:55 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. It's not so much whether "we deem." It's whether it is accurate. Of course, the decision will always |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 05:16 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Exactly, like you said. The president gets to decide who is a combatant and go and kill them |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #40 |
55. Who said go kill "anyone"?? |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
42. I don't have a problem with the word assassination. |
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nonperson (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
49. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory |
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tiny elvis (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-09-11 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
56. killing a person with great political power by anyone for any reason |
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