(01-11-2020, 12:11 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-11-2020, 11:42 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: The answer they got, correctly so, was, "We can't answer the hypothetical." You should read the War Powers Act, it might clear some of this up for you. To give you the Cliff Notes, an attack on the US means the President can respond with notification of Congress required within 48 hours AFTER committing the Forces to battle. They can then continue for not more than 60 days without Congressional approval. So, no, we don't have a dictator, we have a responsible US President fulfilling his Congressional approved duties. The same as the Ukraine Hoax. And the same blah blah response by the Do Nothing Legislature.

I haven't read the war powers act lately, but I'm pretty sure the Persian dude was not traveling in an armored vehicle, nor was he traveling with any heavy weapons.  So while he may have been planning an attack, he was not an obvious threat at that moment.  That doesn't mean it was wrong to kill him. But a better explanation of why it was important to kill him at exactly that moment is owed.