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Also Barack Obama. It's hard to be POTUS without commiting war crimes.

Do be fair to the Nobel committee, he commit his purported "war crimes" after getting the prize.

He also got it for being half black since by the cutoff date he'd been president for all of 11 days. Had they waited a year they would have had the pleasure of finding out he ordered 50% more drone strikes than Bush did.

Content of his character indeed.

We're well into flame war territory here, so I apologize, and am treading carefully.

The list of war crimes I can pin on US during that time is mostly indefinite imprisonment in Guantanamo if you allow for the efforts Obama made to reduce torture.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/09/barack-obamas-shaky-lega...

Drone strikes are not war crimes according to this definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#Definition

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