Obama never ordered the invasion of another country with US troops. Sorry buddy, but air wars to support our allies are different than invading Iran or Iraq.

“Disputing” and “not including everything in Reuters’ reporting” is not the same thing. In your first post, you claimed Obama wouldn’t approve because “the weather didn’t cooperate.” I guess you meant “the night refused to be moonless” is somehow the weather not cooperating? If only we knew in advance the moon’s…

The whole “both sides are bad” line may make you feel morally superior. But the reality is both sides use that line...not to change their ways...but to justify doing whatever they want.

You ARE defending Trump, because you’re normalizing an action making it much easier for Trump to do it and/or claim it’s okay.
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Deposing Saddam Hussein and disbanding the Iraqi army left a vacuum. Pulling American troops out of Iraq was part of an agreement signed with Iraq. Facts.

Obama put it off as long as he could, which initially meant the end of his tenure as POTUS. They brought it back to the table when Trump took over and he approved. Not saying either one was right or wrong but it happened...

No, Obama specifically didn’t sign off on it because he didn’t think there was enough time to deliberate about it until Trump took over. He left it for Trump to decide.

Number of drone strikes is not the measure of one’s propensity for war. One President took the nation into 2 massive wars. One President presided over the end of those wars.

I didn’t call you a Republican, learn how to fucking read.

The ‘most drone bombings ever’ President of Peace

The mongers tend not to be the ones picking up rifles and diving in foxholes. To them, war is fought on the other end of a television feed.

When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, some co-workers who knew I had served asked me if I was jealous that I “...wasn’t getting in on that.” When I told them that I thought it was a fucking stupid way to get people killed over nothing, one of them said “I thought you were a MARINE.” Like I was some kind of noble savage…

Good lord, man. Just based on your lineage through your grandfather and dad, your existence is pretty goddamned miraculous. Thanks for your family’s service.

The only people who think war is good are the ones who have never fought in a war.

Steve Bannon won’t be serving, so he won’t be giving a shit about how it may affect those that do.

I think a great way to tell if the person you’re talking to saw ground combat is how eager they are to push the military option. Granted not everyone is the same, but my grandpa (on a minesweeper in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed), my dad (tunnel rat in Vietnam), and a close friend of mine (marine in Iraq mid-2000s),…

Keeps people distracted and scared so you can do whatever you want. People are social/pack animals and they need to adhere to absolutist ideologies… Nationalism is one of the best absolutist ideologies around.

Just today that groundhog predicted six more weeks of nuclear winter.