What's strangely hypocritical is all the back tracking and hand-wringing by the Democratic Socialists particularly those Obama Apologists on MSNBC. If you watched Hardball or Rachel Maddow the night the execution was announced you'd be hard pressed to find an acknowledgement that Obama ordered it. They both featured more Republican reaction that mentioning the name "Obama." This especially after Obama and the Democrats made such a fuss over "Predator Strikes" and "National Sovereignty" and "Enemy Combatants" and "Holding Brown People Without Trial" in the run up to the 2008 election.
Matthews said that the Republicans praised the execution (which he agreed with) for "all the wrong reasons". Maddow had her "terribly concerned" face on during the entire segment and interviewed an ACLU rep but did her best not to draw much attention to Obama's crucial involvement. My guess is that their usual "Obama cares too much" approach wouldn't work this time so they decided not to draw attention to him.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/worl...tary-says.html
REPORTING FROM CAIRO -- The Yemen military has announced that an airstrike has killed Anwar Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born cleric and prominent voice in an Al Qaeda affiliate that spread Islamic extremism across the Arabian Peninsula and was behind failed attempts to blow up American airplanes.It was later revealed that it was a Predator Strike from a joint CIA-US Army operation which isn't surprising because Obama has upped the once "US liberal disgusted" Predator strikes since he took office with very little, if any, attention by the US media.
BTW, I'm in agreement with the strike. I just wish BHO-and the Demomedia- would have been honest with the American people on how he was going to continue the "war on terror".