Admirals Doenitz and Raeder got bum raps and even had high ranking American officers as defense witnesses. Neither men had joined the NSDAP. Hitler loathed the Navy and reviled it as “Christian” (in the best sense of the word).

For the Japanese Army, quite a few got their necks stretched and they deserved it.

I am going on testimony by ex FBI and CIA agents which I’ve seen/read ever since we found out about the Cheney/Bush use of torture.

Cheney is the only advocate of torture that I know of, as justified by Yoo’s writing of law for that purpose. The CIA torturers were acting on orders. He has yet to demonstrate that torture produced actionable and/or useful information not already gleaned by the FBI and the military using their standard non-torture techniques.

These violations of the Geneva Convention generate charges of war crimes committed by Cheney/Bush. I hope at least Cheney is charged and prosecuted.

Not so. Try reading something besides the Post or NYT.

BO has everything ass-backward; unless the goal is to destroy the Unites States as we know it. Unfortunately, as an inveterate Ayres-Allinsky aparatchik, that is his goal.

Stop the Commie bastards!

Therefore, there is no defense for breaking the Geneva Conventions, as the Cheney/Bush administration were happy to do. For shame on them!

David: “Habeas can be suspended according to the Constitution during war and insurrection by the Congress which gave the President a blank check to get these guys.”

Maybe it can, but is it right to do so, especially in light of what I just wrote. Habeas corpus is a basic of our jurisprudence system, yet people like Dick Cheney and David Anderson are quite willing to forget it when we are under stress. I can’t agree with that.

What I can agree with, however, is your criticism of Obama’s policy to continue renditions. Obama has slipped badly on that one. I hope he reconsiders!

The interrogation of captured airmen in Germany did not involve torture but clever techniques that revealed some information of interest. However, persons likely to be captured seldom had any high-value information. There were a few goofs where high-ranking officers privy to ULTRA were taken prisoner. Most military information grows stale rather rapidly.

In the non-conventional warfare that is now the norm, we have no need for ‘confessions’ but information needs to be extracted. Not by the rack or thumbscrew but by techniques that will encourage a terrorist to reveal facts that can save innocent lives.

Some of these techniques may not get the ACLU seal of approval but we know whose rights they care about.

No, I was not. The people charged with these lesser charges were mostly freed later on appeals or from pardons. It was about the vindictive behavior of the victors not justice.

The POW’s were entitled to legal protection by treaty. Illegal combatants are not. Most of the world recognizes that. President Obama wants other nations to do the dirty work through rendition while not dirtying his hands. I don’t respect that. If you are willing to do rendition, don’t stand on a soapbox claiming that you are morally superior.

We see the same sort of starry-eyed sentimental slop coming from a variety of apologists for evil.