But they hate us for our freedom and democracy....

Imagine how he must treat our enemies when our friends are treated like this...... oh wait...he invites our enemies to the WH and gives them guns and money! My bad!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/10/drone_strikes_map_shows_pakistan_drone_strikes.html

The use of drones for such a purpose was started while George W. Bush occupied the White House.

Yep, and those are the tiny red dots on the graphic...all 6 or 7 of them.... and that's just Pakistan.... Obozo bombs everyone...even 17 year old American citizens....

Like Shrub was a good President or example..... Obozos approval ratings are lower than Shrubs....what an accomplishment!

So what. They work.

Now that depends on your definition of "work"..... yes they go BOOM.... and kill plenty of women and children and very rarely the target they are after....

Neither do bombs suicide bombs strapped to women and children. I'll take a drone accuracy over a suicide bomb any day.

And the kids think they are just playing videa games.

Pakistan isn't a friend. Blow their a$$ up!

Not true. The first Predator's were armed under Bill Clinton and used to hit the Taliban Training camps and the Reapers were operational before President Bush took office. Try again.

I was not aware that drones were used for killing during the Clinton Administration. My point is that President Obama isn't the first president to authorize the use of drones for kill missions.

I never said he was. I believe Bill Clinton was because his administration was the first to order that the Predators be fitted with missles after Kosovo.

No. The Predators may have been armed and used under Clinton, and the first officially reported strike by the Reaper was reported in October 2007 (reported in the Air Force Times).

People may not like it, but UAVs are safer for the operators than the manned alternative and with precision munitions, they're more accurate. Also, most missions never fire a shot, but help intelligence organizations understand the nature of the targets and even prevent lethal strikes. Those planes fly high and quietly, so they can fly over the target for hours and look for the best time to hit--including times when the children are away or when the target is alone in a car.

In the winter of 2000, after seeing the results of Predator reconnaissance in Afghanistan , Cofer Black, head of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC), became a "vocal advocate" of arming the Predator with missiles to target Osama bin Laden in the country. He also believed that CIA pressure and practical interest was causing the USAF's armed Predator program to be significantly accelerated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_drone

My bad the first armed mission overseas of the Predato was September 18, 2001. They were training missions from 2000-2001 in the Nevada desert with armed Predator drones targeting a replica of one of Bin Ladens training camps.

it may have started with Bush, but the green light on assassinating American citizens with them started with Obama.



President Barack Obama on Monday refused to acknowledge the existence of a presidential “kill list” despite multiple assertions by top-ranking officials in his administration that the list exists.

Ben Swann, a reporter for Cincinnati’s FOX 19, asked the president, “How do you as president utilize that power [of the presidential kill list] to assassinate … U.S. citizens?”

“You’re basing this on reports in the news that have never been confirmed by me, and I don’t talk about our national security decisions in that way,” the president responded.

Swann recognized that Obama himself has not confirmed the reports, but several high-ranking officials in his administration have.

More than three dozen of the president’s current and former advisers discussed the kill list in interviews for a New York Times article, including former Chief of Staff Bill Daley, former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and John Brennan, the president’s top counterterrorism adviser, who personally guides Obama through the process of deciding whether or not to put a person on the kill list.

In September 2011, Obama approved a drone strike on American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, a regional al-Qaida commander in Yemen. The next month, al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, also an American citizen, was killed by a drone strike authorized by Obama.

“This is an easy one,” Daley, Obama’s former chief of staff, recalled the president saying when ordering al-Awlaki’s assassination.

A secret Justice Department memo supporting the assassination decreed that American citizens’ Fifth Amendment rights to due process could be satisfied by executive branch deliberations. The memo has not been released to the public.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/05/local-reporter-takes-obama-to-the-woodshed-on-constitutionality-of-kill-list/


as much as I understand the need to be proactive in dealing with terrorism, I cannot agree with secret deliberations on which American citizen is worthy of capture and trial and which should have a missile dropped on his head because the CIA and Obama says so.

The legality of that incident has been questioned by plenty of legal scholars.

is it possible that the Professor of Constitutional Law has never heard of Due Process?

he is overlord in chief.. due process... pffftttt

OK,my bad!