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[QUOTE=presence;5588217][url]http://ivn.us/2012/11/06/100-ways-republicans-are-just-like-democrats/[/url]

[QUOTE]1. A [URL="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2011/s230"]large[/URL] [URL="http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/932"]number[/URL] of Democrats and Republicans signed the National Defense Authorization Act for the year 2012, which critics say allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens on U.S. soil without due process. President Obama [URL="http://www.policymic.com/articles/3234/ndaa-another-broken-promise-by-president-barack-obama-and-an-attack-on-civil-liberties"]pledged[/URL] to veto the NDAA, but went back on his word and [URL="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/"]signed[/URL] it into law with the indefinite detention provision included. Mitt Romney [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1yY3NCiMVQ&feature=youtu.be"]says[/URL] that he would do the same.
2. [URL="http://seekingalpha.com/article/577671-republican-keynesians-need-to-come-out-of-the-closet"]Republicans and Democrats[/URL] overwhelmingly favor Keynesian economics rather than other schools of economic thought such as the [URL="http://reason.com/archives/2012/02/16/keynes-vs-hayek-oversimplified"]Austrian School[/URL] of economics.
3. The Bush-era Patriot Act, which allows for warrantless wiretapping, was passed with [URL="http://votesmart.org/bill/votes/7877#.UHxfU6mPWSo"]bipartisan[/URL] support and recently [URL="http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/senate/1/84"]extended[/URL] by policymakers of both parties. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjaXfwuGmxg&feature=youtu.be"]Romney[/URL] has voiced his support for the controversial legislation. [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/patriot-act-extension-signed-into-law-despite-bipartisan-resistance-in-congress/2011/05/27/AGbVlsCH_story.html"]Obama[/URL] supported it as a senator and signed the extension into law as president.
4. Both the Republican and Democratic administrations have attempted to justify the use of [URL="http://www.cfr.org/counterterrorism/targeted-killings/p9627"]extrajudicial[/URL] targeted killing, the killing of people without trial or substantive due process, including American citizens. The use of these tactics [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/11/obama-drone-wars-normalisation-extrajudicial-killing"]increased[/URL] under President Obama and has received [URL="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/184813-romney-perry-congratulate-obama-perry-gives-backhanded-praise"]praise[/URL] [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/02/dick-liz-cheney-obama-awlaki-apology_n_991062.html"]from[/URL] members of both parties. There was strong [URL="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/bipartisan-approval-targeted-killing"]bipartisan[/URL] support for the Obama Administration’s extrajudicial killing of U.S. citizen [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/awlaki-killed-american-cl_n_988929.html"]Anwar al-Aulaqi[/URL] and his 16 year old son without trial, which received praise from Republican Party [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/30/washington-praises-killing-al-awlaki/"]members[/URL] and was strongly [URL="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/10/03/8130791-romney-forcefully-defends-killing-of-al-awlaki?lite"]supported[/URL] by Mitt Romney.
5. The Democratic and Republican parties both generally support the vastly-growing use of unmanned aerial combat drones in the Middle East:

[LIST][*]The use of unmanned drones to patrol foreign skies, which have been [URL="http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/timeglider/"]responsible[/URL] for many civilian and child deaths, began under [URL="http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/the-bush-years-2004-2009/"]President Bush[/URL] and drone use has drastically [URL="http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drone-data/"]increased[/URL] and expanded under President Obama. There has been [URL="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/drones"]little[/URL] to no partisan opposition to these tactics and while the [URL="http://www.gop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012GOPPlatform.pdf"]GOP platform[/URL] advocates for increased drone use, the Democratic [URL="http://assets.dstatic.org/dnc-platform/2012-National-Platform.pdf"]platform[/URL] doesn’t mention their use at all.[*][URL="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/drone-war-admission/"]Drone warfare[/URL] in Pakistan started under Bush, has been significantly escalated by Obama, and Romney has [URL="http://youtu.be/F2gCv_nOvrI"]indicated[/URL] that he will continue using drones in Pakistan if elected. Both parties also support the continued drone warfare being [URL="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/libya-drone-war/"]used[/URL] in Libya, which [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/26/nader-obama-is-a-war-criminal-but-romney-would-be-worse/"]Romney[/URL] has stated he [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/pawlenty-obamas-drone-strikes-dont-go-far-enough/"]would[/URL] likely continue.[*]In Yemen, the Obama Administration has [URL="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/al-qaeda-in-yemen/interactive-map-americas-war-in-yemen/"]continued[/URL] the fighting that the Bush Administration [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/international/middleeast/02MILI.html"]initiated[/URL], which Obama has done with the use of secretive drone warfare and by [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-notifies-congress-troops-sent-libya-yemen-182602336--election.html"]recently[/URL] sending troops back.[/LIST]


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