• brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
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          Second half of the comment aside, dude did continue and expand drone strikes, which probably does make him eligible for “war criminal” status lol

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            I can’t name a single US president who has not been eligible for “war criminal” status. Not that that makes what Obama did okay, just clarifying that his actions weren’t uniquely egregious. If I were him, my defense would be that we were gonna engage in those strikes either way, but this way American lives were not on the line. In that case, expanding drone strikes could be painted as good in a lot of people’s minds.

            Maybe the best person to have ever been president was Carter, and he still continued to enable a genocide of East Timor by Indonesia.

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              William Henry Harrison was only president March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841 (31 days). While he was a slave owner, he MIGHT not be a war criminal.

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                  Lol in all honesty: never met anyone doing that on this instance. Not to say it never has happened, I just may have never been a big enough fish.

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    This is the martyr they’ve been waiting for.

    Stephen Miller especially: “It is a vast domestic terror movement,” said Miller, speaking of left-wing political organizations. “With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he added. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

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      The Nazis did the exact same thing, so the only surprising thing is that it took so long. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they had Kirk killed for this purpose.