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Rep. Barr: Allow Assassinations of Terrorist Leaders
Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Friday, Sept. 14, 2001
WASHINGTON - The mass murders at the World Trade Center and
Pentagon have revived the effort in Congress to override a
Ford
administration executive order banning assassinations
sanctioned
by the federal government.
Rep. Bob Barr R-Ga., Thursday sent out a letter urging his
colleagues to sign on to his Terrorist Elimination Act,
H.R. 19, "to
repeal those portions of executive orders prohibiting the
government
from directly eliminating terrorist leaders."
In 1998, Barr wrote then-President Bill Clinton asking him
to
"consider lifting this ban and designing a new system so
the threat
posed by individuals proven to be directly responsible for
the deaths
of American citizens - such as Osama bin Laden or Saddam
Hussein - can be eliminated in cases where it is simply
impossible
to capture them by ordinary means."
Three years later, Barr notes, "both of these terrorists
are alive and
well."
Former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., who favors a congressional
declaration of war against the international terrorists,
says he would
favor the Barr measure only up to a point.
"I draw a distinction between assassination as a political
effort. I do
not favor attempts to assassinate leaders of governments
that
perhaps we need to see a change in," he said.
Appearing Thursday on the Sean Hannity radio talk show,
the 1996
GOP vice presidential candidate recalled that under the
Kennedy
administration, the U.S. allowed the assassination of
President
Diem of South Vietnam, and there were attempts to get rid
of
communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as well. Often we
end up
with "something worse," he said.
However, "I agree with Israel," Kemp added. "Every time
you find
someone who's going to commit a terrorist attack, you take
them
out before they can attack unarmed men and women."
Under Kemp's distinction, Osama bin Laden would be a
legitimate
target. Saddam Hussein would not.
"Not if we're at war with Saddam?" Hannity asked.
Kemp hesitated and said the constant bombing of Iraq
stirred
hatred for the U.S. among innocent citizens and left
Hussein in
power.
"If we could've assassinated Hitler, we should've," Hannity
commented.
In his widely circulated letter, Barr makes the argument,
in effect,
that a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist.
"When terrorist leaders, such as the ones who caused those
attacks
take the lives of Americans, I believe it is entirely
appropriate for us
to remove them by any means necessary, without arbitrarily
limiting
our options," he wrote. "The world has changed
dramatically since"
1976 when President Gerald Ford signed the executive order.
"We are at war," the Georgia lawmaker reminded his
colleagues.
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