Which of these presidents are war criminals?

[Left Wing]

I would say Obama isn’t as he likely wasn’t the one who ordered the Kunduz strike

[Mr. Smith]

AOTA: It's pretty much baked into the position at this point.

[Ancestral Republican]

All of the above.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Who was the last United States president who was not a war criminal?

[SWE]

Who was the last United States president who was not a war criminal?

Hoover, probably? Debilitating recessions tend to limit foreign adventures (and Hoover was legitimately good on moving the US away from intervening in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations).

I would say Hoover, yeah

[Ancestral Republican]

Who was the last United States president who was not a war criminal?

Hoover, probably? Debilitating recessions tend to limit foreign adventures (and Hoover was legitimately good on moving the US away from intervening in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations).

Good call. I miss the non-interventionist Republican Party. And Democratic Party, for that matter.

[GeneralMacArthur]

None of them lol.  It's ridiculous hyperbole.

The only one you can even make an argument for is W because the invasion of Iraq was illegal under international law.

[Storr]

With how the modern Presidency has evolved, it's more of a question of if a President was "less bad" when it comes to wars and conflicts. Of those listed, George W. Bush is an obvious outlier for starting an unprovoked full scale war based on at best faulty intelligence and at worst bold faced lies. Everyone else made sure to limit the duration and/or extent of foreign interventions (GHW Bush in Kuwait and Panama, Clinton in Kosovo, Obama in Libya, Reagan in Grenada).

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Who was the last United States president who was not a war criminal?

Hoover, probably? Debilitating recessions tend to limit foreign adventures (and Hoover was legitimately good on moving the US away from intervening in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations).

Good call. I miss the non-interventionist Republican Party. And Democratic Party, for that matter.

Yes, let's go back to the Party that did not want to get involved in WWII.

To answer the question, none of them obviously.

[MATTROSE94]

Probably Donald Trump or George W. Bush.

[😥]

Unpopular opinion: None of them

[Alben Barkley]

Literally just W. “War criminal” is thrown around way too loosely and it always makes me roll my eyes.

[HillGoose]

Bill Clinton because he didn't liberate Rwanda from genocide

[Battista Minola 1616]

Who was the last United States president who was not a war criminal?

I would like the people who (ridiculously) answered Hoover to explain their reasoning.



To be honest I hoped for more ridiculous answers like "they have all been".

[LAKISYLVANIA]

All have their flaws on foreign policy. Clinton's incapability to deal with Rwanda, Bush fake claim on Iraq developing nuclear arsenal, Obama's incapability to deal with Syria, and Trump's decision to remove troops from Syria and give Turkey free play in genociding the Kurds.

But a war criminal, only Bush is, and he might have had the wrong advice or the wrong cabinet.

[dead0man]

One can make good arguments that all of them are.  One can make good arguments that none of them are.  I find it real hard to make arguments that some of them are.  Everyone of them had civilians killed on their orders in situations where they probably didn't need to do it "right now".