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Originally Posted by Tokolosh

Obama embraced the US drone programme and carried out ten times more air strikes than his predecessor, George 'war criminal' Bush, with the war on terror. The rat also broke his promise when it came to closing down Guantanamo. He gets no admiration from me!

the drone program was always a part of his initial offering. he was never a peacenik, he simply offered a more targeted approach and he did follow up on that.

as for guantanamo, he’s not king and congress wouldn’t let him, there were legal challenges and bureaucratic opposition, plus there were “technical difficulties,” lol, about where to send the prisoners.

e.g. see:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ob...ose-guantanamo
or
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ose-guantanamo

hardly “a rat” on both accounts.

btw i wouldn’t say that dubya was rotten to the core. he was just stupid, processed political information in religious terms, and was easily manipulated by neocons.

the one truly rotten to the core in that administration was cheney.