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Why do we still seek to prosecute 95 year old alleged Nazi war criminals and not 75 year old alleged Bush administration war criminals? Moral equivalency is not the issue. Justice for the dead and tortured is the issue, and a warning to future such war criminals.

To paraphrase Gertrude Stein: A war criminal is a war criminal... is a war criminal. Or Shakespeare: What's in a name? that which we call a war criminal, by any other name would still kill as murderously.