Chris's answer and my follow up

Chris

While I appreciate your opinion I must point out 2 very fundamental differences in the WWII and present day scenarios...
First, inside Germany there was not the same level of "as it happened" media attention on the atrocities - there was no free press reporting the crimes as they happened whereas in the US these crimes happened right under our noses - there was a congressional debate on whether or not waterboarding constitutes torture for chrissakes!
Second, the military tribunals were conducted immediately upon the ending of the war and the German public was able to purge and move on with their lives with some sense of justice. This has already dragged on for 6 years with nothing but lack of accountability and denials.

Garfield

Sure, but your point of view comes from the same breeding grounds of the philosophy terrorists adopt. Americans pay taxes, taxes buy bombs and bullets which kill our people therefore every American deserves to die.

Not every American agreed with the Bush administration, not every American ever agrees with their President but they are not all cut from the same cloth and need to be condemned as criminals.

I will agree with one thing, without an investigation into any wrongdoing and consequences for any wrongdoing, then it is possible that a great crime may have been committed which may go unpunished. Worse yet, it sets a precedent that can easily be followed in future similar situations which is the real problem with not deconstructing events to figure if and how mistakes were made.