Comments on: Semi-Secret Drone War Needs Public Accountability

By: Eleanore Whitaker

Eleanore Whitaker — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:22:00 +0000

Ed…This president, though middle aged white males in this country are loathed to admit it, has the same “executive privileges” and the same title “Commander-in-Chief. Therefore, contrary to your attempts to crucify every actions he takes, he does nothing illegal that Bush, Clinton, Bush ’41 or Reagan didn’t. At what point do you Obama haters realize no one is accepting that BS right wing hate?

By: Eleanore Whitaker

Eleanore Whitaker — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:20:00 +0000

The President has already clearly addressed issue regarding these drones. Of course, blockheads who look for every reason to degrade, demean and destroy the president have cow dung in their ear and just don’t listen. Isn’t it odd? President Obama’s predecessor used an alien language to express himself and these dullards of DogPatch understood every word. Now, they have an intelligent, articulate president and they are unable to understand a word he speaks.

The Obama Administration has clearly stated these drones would be used solely for national security and the DOD has outlined in detail in what instances these drones would be used.

If you can use a keyboard, you can find the DOD’s drone policy….otherwise “DUH” yourselves into incoherence.

By: sanorio

sanorio — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:36:00 +0000

You got a link to that rhetoric of ‘letting the poor die?’ Even if he said that (which I doubt)…it has nothing to do with is it right or not to engage in drone attacks in sovereign nations.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:39:00 +0000

When Obama wanted to get bin Laden, Obama’s generals advised him to just bomb bin Laden’s compound — Obama did not want to do that because he feared that there were women and children at the compound, which there were.

No one said Obama does not have consultants & advisors, but Obama does have a big say in it. He greatly favors using drones over other options because they save American lives, they are effective & efficient. And Obama does give the final say on which operatives to target first. And I think he is doing a great job.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:29:00 +0000

I think Obama did a great job getting bin Laden killed & effectively using drones to maximum capacity. He is certainly NOT a weak President. Plus, when it comes to foreign affairs, Obama (as all our other presidents) has a lot more power to do what he wants. He does not have to deal with the deadlocks & endless filibusters that are going on in Congress that are blocking virtually everything he wants and needs to do to help the people of America.

By: ExPAVIC

ExPAVIC — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:01:00 +0000

One More Thing

Just in case you may have forgotten, we are at war with people who would like to destroy us, and this is a conflict to the death as 3,000 people found on that fateful day in September a few years ago.

If we have the weapons, and we really do, to avert another occurrence of that time then we should be using it without hesitation. Let them back off their tack and not us.

By: howa4x

howa4x — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:43:00 +0000

Not really. We need congressional input, and actually the case for war should be presented to the American people 1st.
So let’s be clear on this point, I’m just talking about drones vs boots on the ground. We are already in Afganistan thanks to Bush, but we are in a situation where another country is giving safe harbor to those forces who want to kill our troops. Our choice is to declare war against Pakistan and invade or use drone strikes for the same objective. I don’t think a president should have to go to congress and play politics every time he wants to use one.

The problem with Al Qada is that it is broken into cells and not a standing army, and dispersed into far reaches of other countries.They have sworn to kill American citizens and regardless of why they want to, the fact is they do. Drones are the best way to cripple their infastructure. Pakistan is a failed state and so is Yemen. If they had a strong army and solid institutions we would not have to do this. The Pakistani ISI support the Taliban, and they actually created them, so do we depend on them?

The reality is that the terrorist networks are a bigger threat to their home countries than us, and I guarantee that we are doing this with their secret blessing. All the yipping they are doing publically is for home consumption.

By: Charles Spada

Charles Spada — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:20:00 +0000

I am a firm believer in our Constitution and all of the freedoms it affords us, but we are in a different era from that of our forefathers. Jihadist terrorists are a different breed, mentally unbalanced, as secretive plotters as they are sinister killers. I take my hat off to our president, he is a leader taking appropriate action to protect our country by secretly targeting and killing those who would harm us if they could. You do not advertise, in advance, your every move in combating these killers, our only concern should be to get them before they get us. I do not see President Obama’s brave actions as threatening to our rights, instead, he is protecting them.

By: Landsende

Landsende — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:10:00 +0000

I’m sure the ones complaining the loudest about using drones to kill terrorists are the ones profiting off the war. You don’t need more expensive airplanes, tanks and other weapons of war. And we put fewer lives at risk with fewer injuries. And since the teapublicans want to slash the national debt using drones will help with that. Of course in Ryans budget they want to slash Social Security, Medicare, education, EPA, unemplyment benefits, etc., everything but defense spending and they might have to slash it too. The people being targeted are terrorists who don’t follow any rules and couldn’t care less about the loss of innocent lives. GWB made no big effort to get Bin Laden and we finally have a president that isn’t afraid to make the tough decisions.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:02:00 +0000

Then we should change the constitution to give the president the power to take us to war without consulting the congress! Let us be honest about this!