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Also Barack Obama. It's hard to be POTUS without commiting war crimes.

• dagw 2y ago
  Do be fair to the Nobel committee, he commit his purported "war crimes" after getting the prize.
  • llm_trw 2y ago
    He also got it for being half black since by the cutoff date he'd been president for all of 11 days. Had they waited a year they would have had the pleasure of finding out he ordered 50% more drone strikes than Bush did. Content of his character indeed.
    • jvanderbot 2y ago
      We're well into flame war territory here, so I apologize, and am treading carefully. The list of war crimes I can pin on US during that time is mostly indefinite imprisonment in Guantanamo if you allow for the efforts Obama made to reduce torture. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/09/barack-obamas-shaky-legacy-human-rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/09/barack-obamas-shaky-lega... Drone strikes are not war crimes according to this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#Definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#Definition