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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5 Sep \ on: Trump's drug boat drone strike shows how 'terrorism' makes everyone killable Politics_And_Law
To be fair, it's not just Trump. Obama did this all the time. The media only loses their mind when Trump does it. Not defending either of them.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 6 Sep
Remember when Obama drone striked an American citizen?!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @openyoureyes 5 Sep
The Obama administration turned the extraordinary into the ordinary, running a drone assassination campaign that was out of sight, out of mind for the public. The administration chose the targets—including a teenage American citizen—through a completely secret process. Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American journalist who survived five airstrikes in Syria, found out in 2019 that it was legally impossible to challenge the "kill list" or even find out if he was on it.
https://reason.com/2013/02/07/obama-gives-himself-permission-to-kill/
https://reason.com/2015/04/16/can-the-president-kill-americans/
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 6 Sep
Woah woah woah dont sell Obama short his first American killed deliberately was Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric and alleged operational leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen in September 2011.
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