Obama: Rising U.S. drone strikes ‘troubled me’

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President Obama defended his policy of dramatically increasing drone strikes against suspected terrorists during his tenure even though he said his growing reliance on them ‘”troubled him,” and said he considered taking Osama bin Laden out with a missile but decided against it.

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