• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work
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    5 months ago

    Barak Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. Subsequently, he used a drone to murder an American citizen, among a litany of other atrocities.

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      Best thing Obama did was pulling out of Iraq, finally leaving an illegal war, so hats off for that. But all his talk about envisioning a world free of nuclear weapons and then not even attempting disarmament of the US ones kinda seems weak.

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        Kudos to Obama for actually following through, but the withdrawal from Iraq had a deadline set by the U.S. Status of Forces Agreement signed by Bush, per the request of the Iraqi government.

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        I think his attempts to reestablish new diplomacy with Cuba and Iran were good.

        Then Trump fucked it all up and Biden doesn’t seem to give a shit about going back.

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      We actually bombed the moon on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement!

      Seriously though, it was a middle finger to Bush more than anything.