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Obama's department of defense classified every male between 16-65 hit by drone attacks as enemy combatant until proven otherwise... So the war crimes are bipar
by netsharc 2mo ago
Obama's department of defense classified every male between 16-65 hit by drone attacks as enemy combatant until proven otherwise...
So the war crimes are bipartisan.
And I write this as someone who likes Obama.
- JackFr 2mo agoGWB got heat for extralegal extraordinary renditions. Obama solved it by just killing them. I guess we can’t ask the dead guys if they’d prefer to go to Guantanamo.
- sitzkrieg 2mo agoobama also drone striked killed us citizens with no due process in the name of the game
- Sabinus 2mo agoWhy would they need due process? They weren't the targets and their deaths were accidental collateral damage.
- thunky 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
- robcohen 2mo ago> key organizer for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. Yeah, I don't see a problem here. Due process, slippery slope sure... but this was a cut and dry case. I've got better things to do with my time than be concerned with this.
- thunky 2mo agoGreat. Just don't get upset when a politician you don't like wipes his butt with the consititution.
- LorenPechtel 2mo agoArrest should always be the first choice. But it's not always viable, and taking up arms against the US makes them a legitimate target.
- pclmulqdq 2mo agoAt least one of those American citizens was the intended target of a drone strike.