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(315 posts)
7. same as ever
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 10:03 PM
Mar 2017

Obama broke the record for most weapons sold to Saudi Arabia - sold BILLIONS more AFTER they bombed a children's hospital THEN tried to stop a UN inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen.

Drone strikes killed hundreds of civilians, and two US citizens without a trial.

After that White House Press Secretary told reporters that kid would still be alive if he'd had a better dad.

Same shit cops say when they kill black kids... blame the victim. No one blinked.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/the-number-tainting-barack-obamas-legacy-drone-strike-casualties/news-story/e33bcaebb0928249bcee7952f8cca678

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I know we all hate Trump, and god knows what shit he'll do but part of being a moral human is looking at what your own team does with open eyes. And in that respect, we did massive damage.

Sure, we also propped up a right-wing coup in Honduras, which lead to dozens of democracy and LGBTQ activists being murdered.

More:

The U.S. dropped 26,171 bombs last year, 3,027 more than 2015.

According to an analysis of Defense Department data from the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan think tank, the majority of the bombs were dropped in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. leads an international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in both countries and has carried out air operations in attempt to reduce the area controlled by the terrorist organization.

Nearly the same amount of bombs were dropped in Syria (12,192) and Iraq (12,095) last year."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/united-states-isis-bombing-civilian-deaths

More

U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia in 2016

The U.S. dropped an average of 72 bombs every day — the equivalent of three an hour — in 2016, according to an analysis of American strikes around the world.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636

USA must come clean about civilian deaths caused by Coalition air strikes in Syria

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/10/usa-must-come-clean-about-civilian-deaths-caused-by-coalition-air-strikes-in-syria/

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