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9. Indeed we have
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:54 PM
Jan 2020

And I protested when the Obama administration did it just like I protested when the Bush administrations, the Clinton administration, and the Reagan administration did it, too.

It doesn't matter who's carrying out these war crimes, they're still war crimes, even if we really, really, really don't like the target of our extra-legal attacks, whether it's Osama bin Laden or anyone luckless enough to be in the vicinity of our target. That's the whole idea behind being a nation of laws. The law is supposed to bind and guide a country even when it's inconvenient or doesn't feel good.

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