Nah the technicality is that he replaced the guy who was already going to be the Prez, so that little detail of being born 2,000 years ago in another country doesn't count. If you replace somebody, you get dibs on their life.
You know they're robots when they transform. Hence, "Transformers." They change from their disguises: eighteen-wheelers, helicopters, fighter jets, sometimes dinosaurs, cheetahs and scorpions depending on the series, into huge freakin' robots. That fight other transforming robots.
No no no, the US is having conflict with the Middle East... They came over here and blew up some buildings in '01 so we went over there to try to stomp out the terrorist faction that did it, but apparently we couldn't find 'em so we started stomping Iraq to cover up the fact that we were failing at the first one. Then Israel and the Palestinians began to beat the crap out of each other while we were busy. See, it's complicated, which is why I just said "There's war," but no, you needed an essay.