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How many people has Barack Obama killed with drones? So did W. All the fuss by the Dems for the killing of Soleimani, but presidents have been doing it before Trump came along, so where was the outrage then?
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.”
The quote comes in the context of both the drone program and the killing of Osama bin Laden by a special forces strike force. The passage also specifically references the death of another al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011.
Obama didn’t need to run through this preamble. Everyone knew the litany of his achievements. Foremost on that day, with the fresh news about al-Awlaki, it seemed the president was pondering the drone program that he had expanded so dramatically and with such lethal results, as well as the death of Bin Laden, which was still resonating worldwide months later. “Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” Obama said quietly, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
Al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, who was an American citizen, was killed in a separate drone strike two weeks after his father.
Obama Told Aides He's 'Really Good At Killing People,' New Book 'Double Down' Claims | HuffPost
So, was Trump's killing of a military combatant who had a long history of murder and terrorism against Americans illegal? No more so than Obama, certainly. Soleimani was engaged in planning and directing more attacks agaainst US personnel, I don't see what difference it makes if the next attack was tomorrow or next week or next month. That's what he was doing in Iraq, and Trump was justified in taking him out. This wasn't a political assassination, this was the removal of an enemy military asset.
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.”
The quote comes in the context of both the drone program and the killing of Osama bin Laden by a special forces strike force. The passage also specifically references the death of another al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011.
Obama didn’t need to run through this preamble. Everyone knew the litany of his achievements. Foremost on that day, with the fresh news about al-Awlaki, it seemed the president was pondering the drone program that he had expanded so dramatically and with such lethal results, as well as the death of Bin Laden, which was still resonating worldwide months later. “Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” Obama said quietly, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
Al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, who was an American citizen, was killed in a separate drone strike two weeks after his father.
Obama Told Aides He's 'Really Good At Killing People,' New Book 'Double Down' Claims | HuffPost
So, was Trump's killing of a military combatant who had a long history of murder and terrorism against Americans illegal? No more so than Obama, certainly. Soleimani was engaged in planning and directing more attacks agaainst US personnel, I don't see what difference it makes if the next attack was tomorrow or next week or next month. That's what he was doing in Iraq, and Trump was justified in taking him out. This wasn't a political assassination, this was the removal of an enemy military asset.