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Originally Posted by MarineHawk

It's not whether one likes Cheney or not, but I truly despise comparisons of modern U.S. politicians (on either side) to Nazis (who killed/tortured tens of millions of people out of racial ideology) or others who have really committed war crimes. People who think that any U.S. leader has committed war crimes knows nothing about the recent or long-term history of warfare. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on engaging in a war using smart munnitions and unbelievable restraint and subjecting our own troops to significant casualties in order to prevent excess destruction to the people in the lands where we are fighting. We have the power and technology to transform in minutes any part of the Middle East into what Dreden, Hamburg, Tokyo, and Hiroshima looked like in 1945. Arguably, that would not be a war crime. Certainly, what we are doing now is not a war crime.