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> They are the most conniving and soulless individuals that exist The Trump Republicans are far better in terms of war crimes. Not "better in terms of war crim

> They are the most conniving and soulless individuals that exist The Trump Republicans are far better in terms of war crimes. Not "better in terms of war crimes" is some sort of crowning achievement, but its hard to get much lower than srone striking Americans on foreign soil. To say Trump isn't an improvement over Busch just boggles my mind.

altcognito 6y ago
He revoked the transparency surrounding drone strikes, so you don't know how often they happen. He pardoned war criminals found guilty by our own military courts. He is setting up companies to steal oil from Syria and has always stated that we would be fools not to take those military earned resources. The state kills unarmed people in the US everyday, I see drone strikes in war zones as as far tinier issue than all of the above.
- ekianjo 6y ago
  > He pardoned war criminals found guilty by our own military courts. I am unaware of that, do you have any reference?
  - pm90 6y ago
    Can you not Google? Here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallagher-trump-navy-seal-iraq https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
    - ekianjo 6y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_(Navy_SEAL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_(Navy_SEAL) "Gallagher was acquitted on all but one of the charges he faced on July 2, 2019. He was found guilty of posing for a photograph with the teenager's corpse in violation of Uniform Code of Military Justice article 134, "General article"." And the justice decision was made by a jury, Trump had nothing to do with it: "The jury for Gallagher's court-martial was composed of five enlisted men, including a Navy SEAL and four Marines, plus a Navy commander and a Marine chief warrant officer, after the defense had rejected several other candidates." The pardon of Trump was for the demotion and the prison time. Where do you see any information that he considered a "war criminal" after his trial?
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lehi 6y ago
> its hard to get much lower than srone striking Americans on foreign soil. Trump killed this American on foreign soil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawar_al-Awlaki
- ekianjo 6y ago
  There's a lot more horrible things happening in Yemen and absolutely nobody in the West cares. But everything is political nowadays, anything that's related to Trump gets high coverage, while there's probably somewhere like 200 000 people who have died so far in this ongoing conflict and it barely gets noticed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%9... You gotta love the journalistic bias out there.
  - pm90 6y ago
    The war wasn’t started by Obama so I’m not sure what your point is. In fact the current administration has been supplying the Saudis with all the armaments they need making the situation even worse. Check your facts before posting blindly about media bias.
    - ekianjo 6y ago
      > The war wasn’t started by Obama so I’m not sure what your point is Never said anywhere Obama started this war. I am talking about the media constantly ignoring Yemen, except when a drone strike kills a civilian and the drone strike happens to be from a President they despise. How strange! I can't remember Obama strikes causing so much embarrassment during the last administration. Surely there is absolutely no journalistic bias at play.
      - pm90 6y ago
        If a president is actively supporting a side in an ongoing bloody war, that president will most certainly get more coverage. No bias.
gamblor956 6y ago
Trump killed a US citizen with a drone strike and then simply banned the military from reporting on drone strikes. It's very possible that more US citizens were killed during the Trump administration, and we won't know for decades until the records are unsealed.

altcognito 6y ago

He revoked the transparency surrounding drone strikes, so you don't know how often they happen. He pardoned war criminals found guilty by our own military courts. He is setting up companies to steal oil from Syria and has always stated that we would be fools not to take those military earned resources. The state kills unarmed people in the US everyday, I see drone strikes in war zones as as far tinier issue than all of the above.

ekianjo 6y ago
> He pardoned war criminals found guilty by our own military courts. I am unaware of that, do you have any reference?
- pm90 6y ago
  Can you not Google? Here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallagher-trump-navy-seal-iraq https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
  - ekianjo 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_(Navy_SEAL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_(Navy_SEAL) "Gallagher was acquitted on all but one of the charges he faced on July 2, 2019. He was found guilty of posing for a photograph with the teenager's corpse in violation of Uniform Code of Military Justice article 134, "General article"." And the justice decision was made by a jury, Trump had nothing to do with it: "The jury for Gallagher's court-martial was composed of five enlisted men, including a Navy SEAL and four Marines, plus a Navy commander and a Marine chief warrant officer, after the defense had rejected several other candidates." The pardon of Trump was for the demotion and the prison time. Where do you see any information that he considered a "war criminal" after his trial?
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lehi 6y ago

> its hard to get much lower than srone striking Americans on foreign soil. Trump killed this American on foreign soil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawar_al-Awlaki

ekianjo 6y ago
There's a lot more horrible things happening in Yemen and absolutely nobody in the West cares. But everything is political nowadays, anything that's related to Trump gets high coverage, while there's probably somewhere like 200 000 people who have died so far in this ongoing conflict and it barely gets noticed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%9... You gotta love the journalistic bias out there.
- pm90 6y ago
  The war wasn’t started by Obama so I’m not sure what your point is. In fact the current administration has been supplying the Saudis with all the armaments they need making the situation even worse. Check your facts before posting blindly about media bias.
  - ekianjo 6y ago
    > The war wasn’t started by Obama so I’m not sure what your point is Never said anywhere Obama started this war. I am talking about the media constantly ignoring Yemen, except when a drone strike kills a civilian and the drone strike happens to be from a President they despise. How strange! I can't remember Obama strikes causing so much embarrassment during the last administration. Surely there is absolutely no journalistic bias at play.
    - pm90 6y ago
      If a president is actively supporting a side in an ongoing bloody war, that president will most certainly get more coverage. No bias.

gamblor956 6y ago

Trump killed a US citizen with a drone strike and then simply banned the military from reporting on drone strikes. It's very possible that more US citizens were killed during the Trump administration, and we won't know for decades until the records are unsealed.