23,

LOL. The word you were looking for was not "objectionable." You were looking for the word "objective." But it's cute to see you try.

Second, a picture on a website is supposed to be enough? LOL. Yeah, you're right, no one could possibly modify or doctor up an online picture. That just simply doesn't happen ever, right?

And it doesn't surprise me in the least that you don't care that Obama asked John McCain to do something but then won't do it himself. I've learned that the left has a much higher standard for the right than they do for themselves. One additional example of the many is the Jennings appointment.

I hate what he stands for.

This idea that we're obligated to respect all our leaders is from Scripture is a gross misapplication. 

Oh my......

What case? I just said I don't doubt Obama's eligibility.

Plus how do we know Schwarzenoodle was not born here? I know his life story. But I assume if he insisted on running for President, there would be some process by which he was certified to not have been born here!

23, I say yes respect Obama, agree with him when he is right and disagree when he is wrong. I just rarely agree with him. I will not accede to something I believe is wrong no matter who is pushing it.

God did put leaders in place to punish is people on occasion.

Again? Heh, I dont recall you 'proving' anything. The last I remember, you are yet to make a  worthy rebuttal about that LA attack. so, yeah..  And yes, George Bush has committed war crimes in violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles. He attacked Iraq, against the decisions of the United Nations, and thus violated the UN Charter. Planning and committing a war of aggression is a violation of the Nuremberg Principles. According to the US Constitution these international treaties are part of the "supreme Law of the Land". Bush has violated the Nuremberg Principles and the UN Charter. Plus, waterboarding is torture. Torture is a violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions. So.. yeah. Bush did violate the law. Try again.

With the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan some lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and in the office of White House counsel Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush that he did not have to comply with the Geneva Conventions in handling detainees in the War on Terrorism. This applied not only to members of al Qa'ida but the entire Taliban, because, they argued, Afghanistan was a "failed state." Despite opposition from the U.S. State Department, which warned against ignoring the Geneva Conventions, the Bush administration thenceforth began holding such individuals captured in Afghanistan under the military order and not under the usual conditions of Prisoners of War. In addition, Preemptive invasion without proof of an imminent attack is an illegal act of military aggression. The Bush Administration has never proved that an attack by Saddam on the U.S. or any other country is imminent.
 
And yes. Waterboarding is a form of torture. Look it up; you could also read some of the posts from the "torture and deception" thread.. might find it interesting. (c'mon, even John McCain, a repub, admits that it is torture... which it clearly is. Also, in May 2008 the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens voluntarily underwent waterboarding and concluded that it was torture).

So yes, the Bush admin did, in fact, violate the law.