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Glenn, it would be very interesting for you to contact Kondracke and ask if those very same acts, "under orders and with patriotism", would be worthy of punishment if they had been unsuccessful and we had been attacked.
Another question for those who think we should let bygones be bygones when it comes to war crimes:
If it's just too "traumatic" and too much of a distraction to prosecute war criminals now, do they think the trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo were a bad idea, too? Do we owe the men convicted of war crimes and their families an apology?