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There was a war on. People get killed in wars. Was Truman prosecuted over Hiroshima ?
If Obama personally ordered targets he must have known that they could be reviewed later. If Trump just says "do what you like boys, I'll deny all knowledge", that is just hypocrisy and psychopathy.
Truman should have been tried. Those two nukes were totally unnecessary to win the war at that stage. Just ask any objective historian, they'll tell you.
Or in the word of Gore Vidal... Truman did it "to show off". Show off to Stalin and the godless commies who's the boss now.
But those nukes, according to some (American) historian whose name I can't recall now... were simply doing what the US did on hundreds of missions over Japan before them. They just did it with 1 bomb instead of with a fleet of B52s and their fire bombs.
Yes, a hundred or so cities just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki [?] were burnt to the ground, one or two per night, before the two big ones.
We all know Imperial Japan were terrible, but come on man. They were on their knees, you don't need to destroy their plebs like that.
Back to Obama, the Nobel Peace winner...
A lot of the drone strikes are in countries the US have not declared war on. Places like Pakistan, which I thought was an ally. There's Yemen, all over Africa. I don't remember the US declaring war on any African countries, except maybe Libya when Hilary crackle about "we" come, we saw, he die.
He signed off because he was a bit stupid. Not because he want to be accountable.
Guess what happen to those who leaks info on war crimes under his watch? They get locked up for crime against the state.
But he's getting a very nice presidential centre though. No, not a presidential library, that's for poor president. It's an entire Centre, complete with gentrified neighbours and office towers. And a couple gallery devoted to his poor single-parent childhood struggling to make ends meet... and definitely a vegie patch so kids can eat healthy.
I actually don't mind the likes of Bush Jr. or Trump. They were brought up in wealth. They don't know any better, are just acting their class.
For the likes of Billy Clinton and Barry... they're way worst if you ask me.