This last week Obama, summoning up all the warped acting abilities  that enabled him to run as the candidate of 'hope and change' shamelessly announced that individuals who have participated in war crimes or other serious human rights abuses would not be allowed entry into the United States.  

"I therefore have determined that it is in the interests of the United States to take action to restrict the international travel and to suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrant's, of certain persons who have engaged in the acts outlined in section 1 of this proclamation." That refers to persons who "planned, ordered, assisted, aided and abetted, committed or otherwise participated in "widespread violence against a group of people". The proclamation lists sexual orientation and gender identity.

 The greatest war criminals in recent history, at least since the LBJ-Nixon genocide in Vietnam, are the Bushes, Bill Clinton and Obama himself. If Obama wants to implement that policy he'd have to withdraw all US troops to home bases and then surrender himself at the Hague. 

This is a brazen exercise in propaganda from the man most responsible in the world today for expanding aggressive wars for oil and resources to other countries and for the deaths of civilians and GI's. 

We need to continue to call for the convening of an International War Crimes Tribunal to investigate both Bushes, Clinton, Obama and their cabinets in the wars they generated, including two separate waves of genocide in Iraq. 

If Obama wants to ease the plight of GLBT victims of violence he and H. Clinton can open the doors of US embassies and consulates and the 750 US military bases that gird the globe and offer unlimited asylum and social services to LGBT and other victims of  war crimes. He can let Brad Manning go and give him a Medal of Honor. He can get out of Iraq, Afghanistan and end the attacks on Palestine, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya. the Sudan, Somalia, Bahrain and elsewhere.