Letters to the Editor
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What's wrong with this picture?
Yesterday's Der Speigel carried the news that the state prosecutor in Dortumund was planning to file charges against an 86 year old former member of the Waffen SS who shot and killed 3 civilians in Holland during WWII as part of an SS crackdown on those thought to have been sympathetic to the Dutch underground which was killing German soldiers (the specific prompt apparently was the killing of a pro-Nazi member of the Dutch collaborator government). Does this sound familiar? Substitute American for German and Iraqi for Dutch. Think Haditha. Nobody's been convicted of anything yet. Do you think something's going to happen 60 years from now? I don't think so.
Shrub and Co.? That bunch of war criminals deserves to spend the rest of their natural lives in some dark, dank dungeon populated by spiders and rats but they aren't going to. That would be justice and they all have too much money and influence to be on the receiving end of justice.