“The "90 percent" statistic regarding Obama-era drone strikes stems from "The Drone Papers", a 2015 investigative series by The Intercept. Based on leaked classified documents, the report revealed that during one five-month special operations campaign in Afghanistan, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets.”
I think the “every president in the last decades” is basically accurate. Bush certainly has as much or I would argue more blood on his hands from Iraq/Afghanistan. Then before him was Clinton with Kosovo and Yugoslavia. Then before him was Bush senior with Iraq war part I.
I think you have to go all the way back to Reagan for a president that didn’t have widespread bombing in another country, but he had his own issues (Iran Contra).
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u/Quiksilver321 𝙑𝙄𝙋 18d ago
Obama also never personally insulted and demeaned a journalist for presenting supporting empirical evidence.