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posted by on Monday March 20 2017, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the discuss dept.

When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush's drone wars. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of state ordered ten times more drone strikes than the previous president, and estimates late in Obama's presidency showed 49 out of 50 victims were civilians. In 2015, it was reported that up to 90% of drone casualties were not the intended targets.

Current President Donald Trump campaigned on a less interventionist foreign policy, claiming to be opposed to nation-building and misguided invasions. But less than two months into his presidency, Trump has expanded the drone strikes that plagued Obama's "peaceful" presidency.​

"During President Obama's two terms in office, he approved 542 such targeted strikes in 2,920 days—one every 5.4 days. From his inauguration through today, President Trump had approved at least 36 drone strikes or raids in 45 days—one every 1.25 days."

That's an increase of 432 [sic] percent.

Source: http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/us-drone-strikes-have-gone-up-432-since-trump-took-office


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday March 20 2017, @05:45PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 20 2017, @05:45PM (#481625)

    You lost me.
    Are you still on the need to sterilize blacks and idiots, or did you switch to the Irish invading with their Catholicism?
    I don't think you'd still be on those evil Jews drinking blood, so I must have drifted off while you were complaining about the Latinos crossing the border and/or having too many babies.
    Or was it your recollection of the WWII Japs needing to be rounded up? I kinda gave up on existential-threat-of-the-day after them Ruskies decided not to nuke my favorite Indian reservation...

    21st century, really...

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