concepts carved out at the Nuremberg Trials regarding degrees of guilt

[madison]

I just finished reading a book on the Nuremberg Trials ... over the years, I have read many

And I will tell you that even after the catastrophe that was World War II, and with rage still filling the hearts and minds of most among the victors, the Nuremberg judges were able to DIFFERENTIATE between those who were the most guilty and those who were less guilty.

The most guilty were hanged.

The somewhat less guilty were given prison sentences.

And, at the very first trial of the worst and most important top Nazis, three were acquitted.

Acquitted, not because they were not bad people or hadn't committed terrible crimes, but because there are DEGREES of criminality and evil

Yet, on the Internet bulletin boards, time after time, I read posts by people who seemingly, cannot tell the difference between the ones in this country who are really guilty and the ones who are trapped by the system and the rules -- and who would he hunted down and destroyed by the media whores if they "popped their heads above the foxholes"

Starting right after the vote to fund the Iraq war, on which some Democratic senators voted "nay," the Republicans came out blazing ... firing with both barrels ... and some Democrats, to their shame, piled on, too. In other words, for SOME Democrats, the Democratic candidates are as bad as Bush and, so, these Democrats are willing to destroy our own candidates and make it possible for Republicans to retain control of the White House, in 2008, and maybe regain control of Congress

I think SOME Democrats just like to complain, and that they do not understand the concepts carved out at the Nuremberg Trials regarding degrees of guilt.

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Verdicts at the first of the Nuremberg Trials:
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Hermann Goering -- death by hanging (but committed suicide in his cell)
Artur Seyss-Inquart -- death by hanging
Ernst Kaltenbrunner -- death by hanging
Alfred Rosenberg -- death by hanging
Wilhelm Keitel -- death by hanging
Fritz Sauckel death by hanging
Joachim von Ribbentrop -- death by hanging
Hans Frank -- death by hanging
Wilhelm Frick -- death by hanging
Julius Streicher -- death by hanging
Alfred Jodl -- death by hanging
Martin Bormann -- sentenced (in absentia) to death by hanging
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Rudolf Hess -- life imprisonment
Walter Funk -- life imprisonment
Erich Raeder -- life imprisonment
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Baldur von Schirach -- 20 years imprisonment
Albert Speer -- 20 years imprisonment
Constantin von Neurath -- 15 years imprisonment
Karl Doenitz -- 10 years imprisonment
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Franz von Papen -- acquitted
Hjalmar Schacht -- acquitted
Hans Fritzsche -- acquitted

http://wwwpbsorg/wgbh/amex/nuremberg/peopleevents/p_judgeshtml

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