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Let's not forget the kidnap and murder of Osama bin Laden.

I know this is controversial, but he was sentences to death with no trail or anything.

Violating human rights against one individual, is, as per the original definition, violating the rights of all of humanity.

I get that this was an extreme case, but there's always an extreme case that goes first, and the line gets gradually pushed further and further. We've seen this in history countless times.

You can't exactly expect all war deaths to come with trials though.

You could expect Congress to authorize the military action or declare war though. Without Congressional approval that was just an extrajudicial killing.

Would have been better if the US took the Taliban up on their offer to turn over Bin Laden shortly after the WTC attacks. Very few people even remember the offer was made.

>You could expect Congress to authorize the military action or declare war though.

Yeah you could. But that's a constitutional procedural issue. It's very separate from whether it was in practice a war action, and it was.

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