I was really relieved when Dr. Bramhall was shown the light, first in a comment, then in a blog post devoted to her obviously delusional reference to america as a police state.

 Needless to say, the fool on the hill offered no details, nor facts to back up his contentions.  He finds facts and details inconvenient.

 I slept well that night.

Now I find more reassurance in his latest contention:

 "Peter, . . . You really have to suck it up and start supporting Obama. He is NOT a war criminal…and quite frankly, neither is George W. Bush."

Frank Apisa

FEBRUARY 13, 2012 06:18 PM

"Has Obama committed war crimes?

When Obama came into office, he promptly increased the drone strikes in Pakistan in an effort to kill more Taliban that were hiding out in the tribal regions of Pakistan. However, it was already known during the Bush administration that the drone strikes had killed civilians[1], yet Obama decided to continue this policy, knowing that in doing so he would put more Pakistani civilians at risk. By doing this, he is violating Geneva Convention Article 3 Section 1A which states that “violence to life and person” are prohibited in reference to civilians and “Persons taking no active part in the hostilities.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22964 

"A tribunal in Malaysia, spearheaded by that nation’s former Prime Minister, yesterday found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of “crimes against peace” and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack. The seven-member Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal — which featured an American law professor as one of its chief prosecutors — has no formal enforcement power, but was modeled after a 1967 tribunal in Sweden and Denmark that found the U.S. guilty of a war of aggression in Vietnam, and, even more so, after the U.S.-led Nuremberg Tribunal held after World War II."

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/23/bush_and_blair_found_guilty_of_war_crimes_for_iraq_attack/ 

"Veterans for Peace (VFP), a progressive organization if ever there was one, took the courageous step of voting for the “impeachment of President Barack H. Obama for war crimes” at its annual national convention in Portland Oregon in August. The resolution, which called on Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings, passed with a majority vote. If you did not read of this, you are a victim of the gatekeepers on the “Left” and the usual censorship of the mainstream media."

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/09/13/vets-for-peace-calls-for-impeachment-of-obama-for-war-crimes/ 

"More accurately, Obama ordered the murder of one of his own citizens. Yes, al-Awlaki was accused of working with Al Qaida and assisting in plots to attack the U.S. But these allegations were never proven in a court of law. The Obama administration did not even try to capture al-Awlaki. The president was content to sign a secret memorandum and condemn one of his own citizens to a violent death.

At this very instant, Obama’s army of drones is cruising through the airspace of the Middle East, silently targeting men and women for death. We have no way of knowing how many other citizens of the U.S. have been secretly selected for death. We won’t know until the next time the president shows his smirking face on television to celebrate another murder."

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=83754 

"By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators (Jurist.org, Aug. 4). He ignored, as he often does, the deeply documented factual evidence of war crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney administration – along with grim proof that the Obama administration also violates our anti-torture laws and the U.N. Convention Against Torture we signed. Take, for example, right now under Obama, “The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia.”

For those growing number of Americans who are concerned with what has been – and still is – done in our names, it’s important to know exactly the warning in this regard in the U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment that was signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and ratified by our government in 1994:

“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

“An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.”

The United States also signed the Geneva Conventions, which mandates – and please pay attention to this, President Obama – each contracting party “shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches (of the Geneva Conventions), and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts.”

http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/334569/ 

"A group of rogue US soldiers that referred to themselves as a “kill team” allegedly killed innocent civilians in Afghanistan and then posed for photographs with their victims. The US Army has now apologized for the incident after the German magazine SPIEGEL published several images from the “kill team” in its new issue on March 21, 2011. The Army has issued a statement declaring that the actions depicted in the photos as ” . . . repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States.” The photos were among several seized by Army investigators looking into the deaths of three unarmed Afghans last year.

Last year–on Obama’s watch.

This is definitely Obama’s Abu Ghraib or, simply, Obama Ghraib."

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/23/leftist-media-gives-obama-a-free-pass-for-war-crimes-bush-would-have-been-crucified-for/ 

"On the eighth anniversary of the day President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops into Iraq in 2003, with the full support of the U.S. Congress and majority support from the U.N. Security Council, Barack Obama launched a Tomahawk missile assault on the sovereign nation of Libya with no majority support in the U.N. and without even consulting Congress.

Acting alone while Congress was away on recess, solely at the command of the United Nations and without constitutional authority, Barack Obama dropped over $70 million worth of Tomahawk missiles on Libya -- a dictatorial maneuver to force a regime change in a foreign land.

Under what authority did Obama green-light this dictatorial assault?  To be certain, Qadaffi is no prize, but what Obama just did is nevertheless unacceptable.  Acting all alone in a truly imperialistic fashion, Obama violated his oath of office, Articles I and II of the U.S. Constitution, and the War Powers Act -- all in one mindless, knee-jerk decision.

Article II, Section II of the U.S. Constitution identifies the U.S. president as the commander-in-chief and the civilian oversight of the U.S. military.  But the clause gives the U.S. president no authority to use military might to enforce his political will upon foreign nations.

Article I, Section VIII of the U.S. Constitution bestows the power to declare war solely on the U.S. Congress.  It requires both the commander-in-chief and Congress to commit U.S. troops to combat, without which any deployment of troops is wholly unconstitutional.

The 1973 War Powers Act was put in place to prevent a U.S. president from doing exactly what Barack Obama just did."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/obama_attacks_libya_and_wheres.html