...you mention deeds found out during and after WW2.

Hitler's tactics were brutal and dictatorial from the 1920's...a point that seems to be missed by everyone who mentions the US in the same breath as Nazi Germany. Conentration camps existed long before the jews were interned in them. They were..at that time..populated will political dissenters...not jews...Germans...of all creeds...that dared question Hitler.

So when do we get our chance to put Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn into forced labor camps???

At no time is this saying that the US has behaved >perfectly< in all of these situations. Be that as it may, even had we >known< what was going to occur in some of the situations that were mentioned...did the troops on the ground have the ways and measn at there disposal to handle the situation differently? What were their orders? Most likely to contain the situation and allow the locals to handle it once the objective was attained. War is not always pretty, you know.

Sen Kerry would have been EXECUTED for the statements he made...well before WW2.

So...rationalise away...talk about the evils of the "US regime"...but to compare it to Hitler's Germany >AT ANY POINT IN ITS HISTORY< is ridiculous.