• Count042@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    It was under Bush to justify imprisoning civilians. Bush was all for direct war actions.

    Obama massively increased bombings and drone bombings to pull out combat troops and would do stuff like double tap weddings. To lower the number of civilian deaths, Obama declared any male over the age of 14 to be, by definition, an enemy combatant.

    The person you responded to was correct, though a bit imprecise with their words.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’

      There’s no grey area here, this is just false.