I was watching the Bourne Ultimatum over the weekend. At one point, the character playing the head of a government program, some kind of CIA/NSA thing, describes the program. He says he has authority for wiretapping, kidnapping, torture, rendition, and assassination, on foreigners and American citizens, and they seem to do plenty of it. The program turns out to be illegal. However, when he described it I just thought, "Oh, another one of those."
I've seen movies before with similar rogue agents and governmental programs, but always knew right away it was illegal. This time I thought he was describing some duly authorized program, because our intelligence agencies are doing just those things. Assassination, I don't know, but the others, certainly. That's pretty sad.
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Assination? I would say so. Killing of people in the horn of Africa, Somalia,Ethiopia,etc, by drones with Hellfire missles. Murder by any other name to me. Just because the government says they are "Al Queda",does that make it so? The government said there was WMD in Iraq, got that wrong. How many "Al Qida" in Iraq have upon investigation have turned out to be local villagers just trying to survive the carnage only to be swept up in it by our occupation forces? Questions to ponder. But only if you are capable, most GOP'ers in Idaho are not able to do so IMNSHO.
Assination? I don't even want to think about what that entails.
Yeah, I don't want to think that our government has been engaging in assassination. Unfortunately, given what else it's been doing, it's hard to dismiss it out of hand.
It would be easy to get into a quagmire of trying to distinguish between assassination and sending special forces troops, or private contractors, after specific targets. War is a miasma.
Bubbs was making fun of your spelling :)
And he did so really well, thanks for the laugh, Bubbles
Ooops, apologies,. It should read assassination.
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