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This is the same guy who thinks it's ok to assassinate US citizens with drones without trial.

Despicable.

It's never been not okay to kill people in other countries actively taking up arms against you, U.S. Citizen or not. People are just riding Holder's ass because it seems different to drone strike someone versus an American soldier shooting a German-American who switched sides. E.g. http://journalstar.com/lifestyles/columnist-recounts-tale-of...

USA is not in a war. There has been no declaration of war authorised by Congress. Therefore there can be no 'enemy combatants' - as (legally and officially) there are no war enemies; and drone-striking any US citizen is simply murder.

The U.S. does not need to declare war to be engaged in hostilities, nor does the U.S. need to be in a declared war for people who take up arms against the U.S. to be enemy combatants. This is a practice that is as old as the Republic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unite...

Holder's analysis was based on the AUMF, which as a Congressional authorization of force is as much as the U.S. has ever required.

As an aside, a declaration of war is a diplomatic issue between nations. It's not even applicable in this context, in hostilities against non-nation entities.

False. Public Law section 107-40, Section (2)(b)(1).

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ40/pdf/PLAW-107publ...

It's weird that so many people believe we aren't at war, like they really can't get their heads around the fact that we declared war on a brand name and unlike the "war on drugs" it was an actual war.

This is the same guy who thinks its ok to send guns into mexico to make a case against the second amendment and raise support for the U.N small arms treaty.

I just came here to say pretty much exactly that. Consider the source, people.

Don't stop there. He thinks it is unconstitutional for Congress to limit the President's power to assassinate US Citizens without a trial.

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