While I agree that Roosevelt's direct culpability for the atrocities in the Philippines isn't large, his involvement with them predated his presidency: as Assis

While I agree that Roosevelt's direct culpability for the atrocities in the Philippines isn't large, his involvement with them predated his presidency: as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he agitated forcefully for war with Spain (signing his letters to that effect as "a jingo") on known-fraudulent grounds (the USS Maine), for the express purpose of taking Spain's colonies (including the Philippines and Cuba) into American imperial control. Roosevelt's actions in the latter of those colonies, Cuba, are more worthy of criticism ("I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth"). His bloodlust for personally killing Spanish soldiers in a war he helped to engineer lasted the rest of his life, and the corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that he gave his name to has fueled the US embargo of Cuba that has been imposed for 65 years and counting.