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by DrillShopper 418 days ago
When Biden was elected they didn't seriously crack down on them before outside of the one case at Justice that went nowhere.

They also didn't prosecute GWB/Cheney/Rumsfeld for war crimes when they had the chance. This is a long standing policy of theirs.
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rtkwe 417 days ago
I get the instinct and the reasoning behind it but it really has proven to just let the whole mess fester into the madness we're getting today.
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JumpCrisscross 418 days ago
> didn't prosecute GWB/Cheney/Rumsfeld for war crimes

Not relevant to domestic crimes committed by non-Cabinet folk.

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DrillShopper 418 days ago
Yeah, but you'd think racking up hundreds of thousands of non-combatants deaths and flash frying Pakastani wedding parties remotely because of target misidentification would be high on the list of things to prosecute, if you're the Democrats.

If they won't even investigate the wholesale murder of civilians by the command of the White House and CIA and prosecute those reaponsbile for murder and torture then what hope is there that they'll hold Trump and co to account?

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JumpCrisscross 417 days ago
> you'd think racking up hundreds of thousands of non-combatants deaths and flash frying Pakastani wedding parties remotely because of target misidentification would be high on the list of things to prosecute, if you're the Democrats

A consistent mistake by the Democrats is thinking foreign policy will win votes. It doesn’t. We’re the centre of the empire and that makes us arrogant and self centred. You can’t win a national election based on war crimes.

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DrillShopper 417 days ago
> A consistent mistake by the Democrats is thinking foreign policy will win votes.

Trump won votes in 2024 based on how he said he would handle several foreign policy issues: NATO, Ukraine, Palestine, tariffs, China, and Iran, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

> You can’t win a national election based on war crimes.

This clearly is the case, so do the prosecutions after winning the election and running on domestic issues. To do anything less is to both give up the moral high ground and endorse the war crimes by not vigorously investigating them.

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watwut 417 days ago
Americans dont care about Murders of foreign civilians. Not that they are all that special in that, foreigners clock less in general.
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