[coloradan]

I didn’t know murdering Al Qaeda was illegal. If it is, there are a lot of people who should be tried and convicted.

[kellynla]

“I didn’t know murdering Al Qaeda was illegal. If it is, there are a lot of people who should be tried and convicted.”

WRONG!

There are many American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Marines, including yours truly, who have “killed” the enemy in war BUT 99.9% never “murdered” anyone. There is a HUGE difference in killing the enemy & murdering the enemy.

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[Yorlik803]

Breaker Morant, call your office.

[brushcop]

You’re terminology is wrong coloradan, watch it. I don’t appreciate the inference.

Vet and combat Infantryman’s dad

[Polybius]

I didn’t know murdering Al Qaeda was illegal. If it is, there are a lot of people who should be tried and convicted.

There is a huge difference between "killing" and "murdering".

For example, "killing" was the case when that man saved John F. Kennedy's life. Just as the potential assasin, I forget his name, had Kennedy in the sights of his rifle, the hero burst into the room at the Dallas School Depository and shot the would be assasin dead. As you recall, he received the Congressional Gold Medal for his heroic act.

"Murdering" would have been if our hero had, say, shot the assasin after he killed Kennedy and was already in custody. If that had happened, he would have ended up in prison for murder.

Self defense makes the shooting justifiable.

"He was al Qaeda" or "He assasinated JFK" does not.

If the dead man was al Qaeda, he might have divulged valuable information under interrogation that would have prevented an attack that later took American lives or helped round up other al Qaeda operatives. Dead men, however, don't talk and takes their information to the grave.

[edge10]

If killing terrorists is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

[nahanrac]

Unfortuanatly there already are.