War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
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War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
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#2"Now" is doing a metric ton of heavy lifting in that headline.
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#3"Now" is doing a metric ton of heavy lifting in that headline.
Remember when America firebombed civilians during World War Two?
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#5The US certainly has a mixed track record here. But the culture of lawlessness in this administration is hard to overstate. Every crime committed by this regime is followed by a "what about" argument from a pundit, citing an example where someone in time, committed a vaguely similar offense. But no regime in US history did so many crimes so often. This is historically corrupt and criminal; everything else is disingenuous false equivalency.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when America firebombed civilians during World War Two?
Wasn’t regret for and fear of the scale of that damage partly why we supported the Geneva Convention?
Ever heard about Laos?
"Between December of 1964 and March of 1973, the US launched more than 270 million cluster bombs on Laos during Operation Barrel Roll. This number is equivalent to dropping a full plane cargo load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. Laos is thus the most heavily bombed country in the world."
"The legacy of this once secret war continues today. More than 80,000,000 undetonated bombs are strewn across the country threatening the lives of its people."
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/laos-the-most-heavily-bo...
"Since the end of the operation in 1973, over 20,000 people have died or been injured by these remaining bombs. At any moment, a farmer may strike one while plowing or a child may find one while playing. (...) Estimates suggest that as many as 100 civilians fall victim every year"
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when America firebombed civilians during World War Two?
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They did both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
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#9The US certainly has a mixed track record here. But the culture of lawlessness in this administration is hard to overstate. Every crime committed by this regime is followed by a "what about" argument from a pundit, citing an example where someone in time, committed a vaguely similar offense. But no regime in US history did so many crimes so often. This is historically corrupt and criminal; everything else is disingen…
For anyone who hasn't, I recommend reading up on Watergate and watching the resignation speech.
It represents the kind of presidential conduct that a few decades ago was considered so abhorrent that the president should immediately resign over it.
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#10"Now" is doing a metric ton of heavy lifting in that headline.
There are degrees to these things. A nation's leader repeatedly and explicitly declaring intent to commit genocide is makes that "lift" an extremely light one.