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"I remember all the Nazis we took down into the basement and tortured during the Second World War, because they did, after all -- oh, wait a minute, we didn't. Back then, we were being run by decent men, not by hysterical, evil men like Bush and Cheney."
Actually do some reasearch on American treatment of German civilians and POWs during and after WWII and then come back with your mighty historical pronouncements. Especially look into the US handing over POWs to the Soviets. The paralells with those modern events which make Salonistas "shake with rage" should be glaringly obvious.