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Democrats totally destabilized the Middle East?

Alternative facts, alternative reality.

Both parties have had a _significant_ hand in it, dating back to GHWB and Clinton. Don't you forgot that either, lest we remember Obama as anything other than a President who liked droning brown people.

You're shifting the goalposts, from the ridiculous assertion that Democrats destabilized the Middle East to "both parties have had bad policies in the Middle East." But let's run with it.

Let's say that Obama killed 5k people with drones. This is a large overestimation, but let's compare.

GWB killed over half a million Iraqis for no reason, and counting. He's indirectly responsible for the rise of ISIS in a way that no other President or SoS is.

No other President except Clinton.

That's just with drones, and I'd say it's a very conservative number. He also funded and armed "moderate opposition" in Syria, al quaeda associted groups (Jabhat al-Nusra and others) there, and helped topple several governments. This displaced millions and killed hundreds of thousands.

Here's Hillary laughing about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

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