*GHETTOBLASTER » 02 Dec 2025, 4:42 pm » wrote: ↑
For once in your life "man up" and admit that you've never openly criticized Obama's drone strikes.
Team Obama is so proud of what they did that they have kept the actual number of drone strikes a secret from the public.
Here is the thing low IQ buckwheat
obombas drone program was a war crime
and the numbers came out ( sort of)
Less than two weeks ago, the United States conducted a drone strike over central Yemen, killing one al-Qaeda operative. The strike was the
last under Obama (that we know of). The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he
reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
here is the bit that separates me and you
YOU don’t care as long as it is tRump doing it
Yes, the Trump administration continued the use of the Obama-era drone program but significantly expanded its use and dismantled key transparency and oversight rules.
While the underlying legal framework and the use of drones as a counterterrorism tool were inherited from the Obama administration, the Trump administration made several key changes:
- Delegation of Authority: President Obama had a more "hands-on" approach, with high-level, interagency meetings required for many targets outside active war zones. In contrast, President Trump decentralized the process, giving military and CIA officials in the field greater discretion to approve and launch strikes without White House approval.
- Increased Strike Rate: The number of drone strikes increased significantly under Trump compared to Obama's second term. One report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimated 2,243 strikes in Trump's first two years, compared to 1,878 in Obama's entire eight years.
- Relaxed Targeting Rules: The Trump administration rescinded Obama-era requirements that targets of lethal force outside of "active hostilities" posed a "continuing, imminent threat" to Americans. New rules permitted targeting individuals based on their status as members of a terrorist group, rather than an immediate, individual threat.
- Reduced Transparency: In March 2019, President Trump revoked an Obama-era executive order that required intelligence agencies to publicly report the number of civilian and combatant deaths from drone strikes outside of active war zones. This action ended a measure put in place by Obama as a step toward greater transparency.
In essence, Trump utilized the "playbook" established by Obama but removed many of the procedural and reporting constraints that Obama had gradually implemented.
“man up” indeed