[Still Thinking]

Justice, American Style: Was Bin Laden's Killing Legal?

[facepalm] I don't know. If some attorney wants to be appointed to represent him at this point, let him come forward and we'll shoot him too. Would that make it adequately legal?

[avacado]

So are the left-wingers going to be calling Obama a war criminal and to be put on trial by the International Criminal Court?

[Snickering Hound]

"I will make it legal."

[brownsfan]

A cheesey movie quote will do as a reply:

In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it’s an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Was the 9/11 attack legal?

[Palter]

Meh, he’s just speaking German.

[bgill]

Ok, I'll go along with it being illegal and someone should be made to pay for such an atrocious act. Let's see, who was it that took full credit for it? Oh, yeah, it was zero. That's one way to get him out of office.

[svcw]

I don’t actually care if it was or was not.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Fking german wusses. Its legal to us he was the reason 9/11 happened. You wimpy ass nanny state moral equalizers make me want to vomit.

[edpc]

Whether it was or wasn’t......I don’t think this country needs to answer Germany in matters of morality and law.

[righttackle44]

The REAL question that Der Spiegel is asking is, Would
the United States still come after really old Nazis?

[bert]

The mission was to execute an order likely on the shelf for some time to be called up in a minute’s notice. The order was in effect a death warrant signed sealed and requiring only a counter signature

The operation was therefore legal

[Yo-Yo]

So now is some dumbass prosecutor in Switzerland going to charge Zero with a war crime, and is the Alfred Nobel Committee going to revoke Zero's Peace Prize?

[hosepipe]

A legal killing..... WHAT A CONCEPT!..
Murdering babies seems to be LEGAL!...

[hoagy62]

Was it legal?

WHO THE F%$# CARES??? WE GOT THE SONOFABITCH!!!!

I mean jeez....we, the United States of America, take out a mastermind of evil, and someone asks if it was LEGAL??? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!!!

[SamuraiScot]

Claus Kress, an international law professor at the University of Cologne, argues that achieving retributive justice for crimes, difficult as that may be, is "not achieved through summary executions, but through a punishment that is meted out at the end of a trial."

You people are funny.

There is no such thing as international law. Nations have laws, and sometimes they have treaties. Everything else is blather at international conferences, paid for by taxpayers who are not protected in the least by the conferees' silly, socialistic words. If you attack Americans, we paint a target on your back. Our guys are so good, even a metrosexual waving his hands can't screw up the operation.

I wonder what they actually told him beforehand about the operation or what it would involve. He doesn't know which end the bullet comes out of. How would he ever know if they were BS-ing him?

[Mich Patriot]

"What is just about killing a feared terrorist in his home in the middle of Pakistan?"

EVERYTHING is just about it. This is not a "feared terrorist". He is a known terrorist, and by his own admission.

[Fred Hayek]

OK, if one wishes to treat this a law enforcement operation, consider this. LEO’s arrive to arrest OBL. OBL points a weapon at the LEO’s. Suicide by cop. Good enough for me.

[SECURE AMERICA]

. What is just about killing a feared terrorist in his home in the middle of Pakistan?

DUH!! Its a war.
He was an enemy combatant.
Pakistan is a terrorist nation that surely knew he was there so screw them and they can get some too if they want......

[kittymyrib]

Since we pay for the World Court, we have nothing to fear. Only the weak nations, such as Serbia, are hauled before that toothless court for defending their territory from invading Muslims.