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Aussie105

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32. America has an unfortunate track record on extra judicial killings.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:11 AM

1 hr ago

Send in the helicopters (Bin Laden), drop a big bomb on Afghani mountain regions where you suspect combatants are hiding in underground caves, zap a few speedboats that may be drug runners, yep, a long sordid history.

'Just following orders' didn't go down well in the Nuremberg trials but I can't see a future where America will be held accountable in the same way.

'Might makes right'?

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U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says [View all] BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago OP

shithole and the Pentagon are......................... Lovie777 13 hrs ago #1

The word "Nuremburg" means nothing to them... NotHardly 11 hrs ago #12

He's got that immunity Polybius 8 hrs ago #20

That's what Hitler told his gestapo. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #2

If they have immunity for the killing, do they have immunity for complying with the orders to kill? And, if they have in2herbs 13 hrs ago #3

Making it legal don't make it right. twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #4

It would be a law "more honored in the breach than the observance" ananda 13 hrs ago #6

Sounds like you could be contract lawyer. One that is an expert in contracts, not a temp hire. twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #7

I guess an old English teacher will have to do. ananda 13 hrs ago #8

Reading and interpreting. twodogsbarking 10 hrs ago #15

International Criminal Court 2na fisherman 13 hrs ago #5

They are powerless here though Polybius 8 hrs ago #21

Maybe not while you guiys are in control. BUT bluestarone 12 hrs ago #9

Remember Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki? He was a native-born US citizen killed by a drone strike on September 30, 2011, 24601 12 hrs ago #10

Comparing the al-Awlaki case to these continuing attacks on boats is quite the stretch Prairie Gates 10 hrs ago #14

Anything can be challenged, and should be. Wtf. nt miyazaki 11 hrs ago #11

An incorrect and meaningless legal opinion. TomSlick 10 hrs ago #13

They will probably try to hold it to the same level BumRushDaShow 9 hrs ago #19

Perhaps. TomSlick 8 hrs ago #23

... Solly Mack 10 hrs ago #16

How convenient.... Quanto Magnus 10 hrs ago #17

Just following orders. Right? n/t Munu 10 hrs ago #18

Probably kevinore 8 hrs ago #22

Nuremberg NewEnglandAutumn 8 hrs ago #24

John Yoo and Alberto Gonzalez come to mind. Buddyzbuddy 7 hrs ago #25

Somebody probably told the Gestapo and the SS the same thing. Turbineguy 7 hrs ago #26

The international courts may disagree as will American courts JT45242 7 hrs ago #27

John Yoo also wrote an opinion claiming water boarding was not torture. surfered 7 hrs ago #28

So..... COL Mustard 7 hrs ago #29

Says you. kacekwl 7 hrs ago #30

Didn't a number of German officers and soldiers try the defence that they were just following orders? cstanleytech 4 hrs ago #31

America has an unfortunate track record on extra judicial killings. Aussie105 1 hr ago #32

i can forsee i latin american government kidnapping top us officials and putting them on trial moonshinegnomie 1 hr ago #33