Leftists are unprincipled hypocrites when it comes to the national defense of the US and the issue of civil liberties. Leftists have no understanding of the meaning of Due Process. But there are a few leftists who are still honorable. Here's one who calls out his fellow leftists for being unprincipled hacks over obama's drone war. Check it out: "...Some liberals acknowledged in recent days that they were willing to accept policies they once would have deplored as long as they were in Mr. Obama's hands, not Mr. Bush's." As but one example, the article quoted Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor and fervent Obama supporter, as admitting without any apparent shame that "if this was Bush, I think that we would all be more up in arms" because, she said "we trust the president". Thus did we have - while some media liberals objected - scores of progressives and conservatives uniting to overtly embrace the once-controversial Bush/Cheney premises of the War on Terror (it's a global war! the whole world is a battlefield! the president has authority to do whatever he wants to The Terrorists without interference from courts!) in order to defend the war's most radical power yet (the president's power to assassinate even his own citizens in secret, without charges, and without checks)...." Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/11/progressives-defend-obama-kill-list
