Well, I mean… Richard “It’s Not A Crime if the President Does It” Nixon needed it.
Or->and. Remember he is senile
Unpopular opinion: Obama should be prosecuted for the immense amount of drone strikes that resulted in thousands of deaths.
I’m not sure why that is an actually unpopular opinion either… They’re literally designed to hit first responders.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) includes the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against medical units and transport (arts. 8(2)(b)(xxiv), 8(2)(e)(ii)) for both international and non-international armed conflicts).
If I don’t like it when their guy does it, I don’t see why it’s ok when our guy does it.
I actually wrote up and sent Obama a strongly worded letter a few years ago, after his last term ended expressing my disappointment in him. I read his book and realized that he didn’t know, or refused to acknowledge his complicity in the atrocities of his administration. Never did get a reply.
Not for the deaths themselves, but he should be tried for authorizing ‘double-tap’ strikes. Depending on the exact justification and the level of scrutiny employed, it may not rise to the level of a war crime - but there is a very good chance that it does.
Sadly, it’ll never happen. If Bush didn’t get tried for much, much worse while being much, much less popular, Obama definitely isn’t.
Dictators love reasons to institute emergency powers. Oldest strategy in the playbook.
