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minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day ago President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ There’s no grey area here, this is just false.
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-224 hours agoHe absolutely redefined to justify killing children. Bush didn’t do that. It was used, under Bush, to justify torture and jailing of adults. Obama re-invented it for his purposes. The purpose being to kill children without consequence. In my mind, that definitional change is significant enough that he owns a lot of that blame. Fucking goddammit, he redefined the word to justify killing children. Why do you defend that? EDIT: Removed indirect articles for easier readability, content is the same.
There’s no grey area here, this is just false.
He absolutely redefined to justify killing children. Bush didn’t do that. It was used, under Bush, to justify torture and jailing of adults.
Obama re-invented it for his purposes. The purpose being to kill children without consequence.
In my mind, that definitional change is significant enough that he owns a lot of that blame.
Fucking goddammit, he redefined the word to justify killing children. Why do you defend that?
EDIT: Removed indirect articles for easier readability, content is the same.