I can just imagine some of you bleeding hearts back in 1944 talking about how we need to make sure the Nazi's get fair treatment and that Waffen-SS and Sonderkommandos get a trial and a chance to go before a judge and procure evidence and due process. If you guys were in charge back then things would have been a lot different.

Are you aware that US forces routinely shot on sight nazi scum? no trial, no geneva convention. are you aware of Eisenhower's treatment of Nazi pows after WW2 and the conditions they were in? Do you know that US forces didn't worry about things like collateral damage and int'l law because they were in a life or death struggle with Hitler and Hirohito and there was no time for some of your liberal notions of justice.

Thank god we had real leaders back then like FDR, Give em Hell Harry, Ole Blood and Guts, and MacArthur. Men that knew what was on the line and only cared about one thing-victory. Guys like Truman and FDR weren't afraid to show the Japanese who was boss, to let the Germans know that we will kill ever last woman and child in every last town and village until they surrender. Guys that weren't afraid to do what needed to be done in places like Dresden, Hamburg, Okinawa, Tokyo, Anzio, and elsewhere.

It's attitutde's like those of some I see on here that really make me wonder if we have what it takes to prevail here. Because I can tell you one thing, Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri haven't spent even one second thinking about treating our guys with the benevolence that you'd show those who are of the same station as Reinhard Heydrich(the Butcher of Prague), Hans Frank, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Hitler. Men like Churchill and Roosevelt would laugh at you, and I can only chuckle at the fact that the very govt and military you condemn and ridicule is all that's standing between you and Bin Laden killing your family and everyone else you care about. The irony is thick among the ungrateful.

I'll close with the wise words of Lt. Col Nathan R Jessup, USMC:

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.