“I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said at the fundraiser

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    Bad things in the past don’t justify future bad actions. Using that exact same logic it can be argued that opening a concentration camp in Florida is totally good and cool because we had Japanese concentration camps before. That’s fucking stupid and you know it.

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        Obama isn’t without criticism but calling him a war criminal is a bit of an eye roll in my opinion.

        Prosecuting Bush. For what? War crimes again? Our government has been doing war crimes forever.

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          Lol I don’t think you understand and I don’t really understand what you’re talking about.

          Nothing what you’re reading is being said. What is being said is what war crime did Bush do that Obama could’ve even gone after him for without tanking his own political position and also absolutely getting nowhere. Do you think after Nixon any president will face true legal repercussions? On top of that, dunno how old you are, but Bush’s whole presidency he was somehow seen as almost a little kid. He would goof, shrug say aw shucks and people would laugh and move on. In no universe I can imagine is Obama getting that guy prosecuted at all.

          On top of that, aside from that. I don’t think Obama did any war crime. I think people who say that are genuinely uninformed or stupid. That’s a Republican fox news adjacent Joe Rogan ass take on Obama’s military practices.

          Bush has far more casualties, Trump removed the ability to see how much he was drone striking and also illegal used drone strikes against Congress approval.

          You’re not removing the military industrial complex from America, Obama is not going to be able to stop the war or solve anything really and that is clear in his handling of the situation. They attempted to train up a local force to hold peace which didn’t work and they pulled from aggressive military campaigning to drone strikes and policing. Where’s the war crime?

          The last theater of war we engaged in (the cold war). They’re napalming folks by the gallon, slaying babies in Vietnam, overthrowing governments galore and attempting to assassinate De Gaulle, Castro and whoever else they don’t like.

          Obama appears on the scene after all of this. After the CIA has gone rogue and the military industrial complex is both the heart and lungs of your economy. The war is already happening and your predecessors has made a lot of enemies for you. The fuck do YOU do in that instance? Really put yourself there don’t give me some crap liberal socialist answer. I’m a socialist myself, ain’t no fuckin way the world is letting me do what I wish to America in his shoes.