I don't believe any of Germany's or Japan's generals were severely punished for war crimes, though there was ample justification for both. At the Battle of the Bulge General Pfieffer of the 1st SS Panzer division slaughtered 150 captive American's in cold blood at Malmedy. I think he only served two years in a military prison. The Japanese military was notorious for taking no American prisoners in the Pacific, for forcing American prisoners to slave labor for the Japanese war effort, and for using white flags and truces as pretexts to inflict casualties on American troops. Again, the Japanese military was treated with utmost decency and respect after the war.

By contrast, America's military have conducted what amounts to an antiseptic war in Iraq, going to great extremes to protect civilian life, even though both Saddam Hussein and the insurgency both use the civilian population to hide and protect their forces from our men in uniform. The war criminals aren't on our side, in my opinion.

The only criminals we have on our side are the loons that distort casualty counts to support specious and vacuous accusations.