That's why there has been no "intelligence" on Bin Laden for years, because there is none to be had. His fate is already known.

So we are going to bring a few of these disaster-makers into the big apple. The district attorney could have them do a "perp walk", that's if Erick Holder and the ACLU don't think that would be too demeaning. Speaking of the ACLU, I'm sure they would be willing to handle the defense of these guys 'pro bono'.

By the time the ACLU gets done putting the CIA, FBI and the Bush Administration on the stand and demonstrating all of the torture techniques they employed, maybe we can get these guys to accept an out of court settlement of a few hundred million apiece, with the apologies of the court.

We would not be exporting our dollars for foreign oil if his idiots would let us drill and keep our money and jobs in America.

I wonder if he thinks that all the cars on the road today will be turned into electric overnight because he declares it.

Although 9/11 can be called either an act of war or mass murder, the right-wing argument insists KSM's NYC trial is too risky. It's fear-based. KSM will say bad things, and that makes some people scared. Will someone try to blow themselves up? That makes them scared. The NYC police will provide world-class security, they're smart and can protect us, but the right-wing is getting scared.

As for Nuremberg Trials, whose legal basis was Germany's Instrument of Surrender — Nuremberg was the symbolic home of the Nazi Party, where it's biggest propaganda rallies were held. The city was chosen specifically because it was the symbol of Nazism's crimes against humanity – just as lower Manhattan represents Al Queda's crimes against humanity to the entire world.

Denigrating liberals may feel good, but center, right, and left are part of the same country. The small minds on both the right and left extremes scream that their opponents cause all the world's problems. In fact, its extremists of any ilk who are most destructive.

To Jeanne — if an illegal alien commits murder, he is tried in court. Justice is not reserved for citizens, as Michael Hass suggests. Your call for a civil war is extremist poison, the kind of statement you'll hear the Taliban make.

JC Hughes asks if Japan's military leaders should have been tried in civilian courts for Pearl Harbor. In fact the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was formed to try high-ranking officials in Japan itself — as at Nuremberg, the court was symbolic: the War Ministry office in Tokyo. The US chief prosecutor said "war and treaty-breakers should be stripped of the glamour of national heroes and exposed as what they really are — plain, ordinary murderers."

Dr. James Osberg — my grandfather, father, brother, cousins, all served in the military. I worked in Africa to end two civil wars. The services are not uniformly Republican. More to the point, some Republicans call anyone against their agenda unpatriotic. But the fact is very few Republican legislators have kids in the services.

Alas, if people with such strong political opinions served in Afghanistan, they'd probably realize how silly they sound.