'the two war criminals will not have to come to trial,' Truman said, 'and I am very happy'
“Mr. President,” the reporter began, “would you care to comment on the death of Adolf Hitler reported, or Mussolini?”
Truman’s response indicated the looming problem of how to serve justice to Axis leaders who had wrought such havoc on Europe.
“Well, of course, the two principal war criminals will not have to come to trial,” Truman said, “and I am very happy they are out of the way.”
http://www.examiner.net/article/20150430/NEWS/150439985
Notice Truman is only happy a brutal dictator was dead. He wasn't 'gleeful' like Hillary. 
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Who knew? 
Hitler & Mussolini actually WERE a threat to the USA.
We were in a Declared War with them.
The USA had absolutely NOTHING to do with the deaths of either Hitler or Mussolini.
OTOH, what threat did Gaddafi or Saddam pose to the USA?
Gaddafi was a threat to the IMF and the World Bank because he was a committed Pan African (Africa for Africans) and used Oil Money to undercut the IMF and keep their usurious "loans" and demands for Privatization OUT of Africa.
So, "they" Piggy Backed on the legitimate Arab Spring to join an ongoing Civil War on the side of the Black Flag Islamic Fundamentalists, and took him out, turning the most advanced and secular country with the highest standard of living in North Africa into another Failed State run by Radical Islamic Fundamentalists who have already imposed Sharia Law on Libya.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html
Our Freedom & Democracy Bombs don't seem to be spreading Freedom and Democracy.
If you are a war criminal, please raise your hand.
They're war criminals.
Unpunished war criminals.
The BBC Version:
Mad Dog - Gaddafi's Secret World
Colonel Gaddafi was called Mad Dog by Ronald Reagan. His income from oil was a billion dollars a week. He washed his hands in deer's blood. No other dictator had such sex appeal and no other so cannily combined oil and the implied threat of terror to turn Western powers into cowed appeasers.
When he went abroad - bedecked in fake medals from unfought wars - a bulletproof tent was flown ahead, along with camels that would be tethered outside. His sons lived a Dolce & Gabbana lifestyle - one kept white tigers, while another commissioned a $500 million cruise liner with a shark pool.
Like other tyrants, Gaddafi used torture and murder to silence opposition, but what made his rule especially terrifying was that death came so casually. A man who complained that Gaddafi had an affair with his wife was allegedly tied between two cars and torn in half. On visits to schools and orphanages Gaddafi would tap underage girls on the head to show his henchmen which ones he wanted. They would be taken to his palace and abused. Young boys were held in tunnels under the palace...
Then I met a man in a bar in Africa. He was a Scottish oil worker from Tripoli. He told me his Libyan neighbour’s seven year old daughter had been intercepted by Libyan security on her way home from school. They cut off her lips with scissors and hung them in a plastic bag inside a car. They put her body on the back seat. She bled to death. Her father had spoken derisively of Gaddafi and been shopped by a colleague. Suddenly the dictator didn’t seem such fun anymore...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03tj0n0
The Guardian version:
Storyville: Mad Dog – Gaddafi's Secret World (BBC4) was as dense, as informative and as powerful as you might expect of an 80-minute documentary about the Libyan leader containing interviews with those he bereaved, tortured and imprisoned, those who tried to stop him, and those who – when the money was right and the risk worth it – helped him; and it was twice as horrifying.
Christopher Olgiati's film outlined Gaddafi's funding and coordinating of terrorist movements, the orchestrating of civil conflicts, the training of genocidal warlords, the ceaseless executions of enemies real and imagined. Amid the litany of violations against God and man and conscience, some details stood out. Idi Amin's prisoners having to choose between suffocation in their overstuffed cells or death by stepping into the electrified water outside. The hot pokers and dogs trained to bite to a maximally-painful depth in Abu Salim jail. The six-year-old with her lips cut off and left to bleed to death because she did not smile when Gaddafi thought she should.
The only relief came when we moved from profound horror to profound disquiet, such as when the former National Security Council Director for Libya at the White House, Gwenyth Todd, recalled watching an oil company's CEO who had come to ask them to lift the post-Lockerbie sanctions start crying when they refused. "We handed him a Kleenex," she says, in a still-disbelieving tone. She uses the same tone when remembering the meeting at which one of her colleagues wondered whether they could remove the sanctions if they managed to discredit the families of the victims of the Pan Am bombing by pointing out that they had accepted insurance payouts from the airline, making them out to be moneygrabbers...***
It was a masterful portrait of the man and of his rise and downfall – slightly let down by an unnecessarily self-aggrandising voiceover: at one point the speaker intoned, in his effortfully gravelly manner, "The men who went [to accept Gaddafi's offer to train terrorists] are reluctant to talk. One told us to forget we even knew his name..."
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/feb/04/storyville-mad-dog-gaddafis-secret-world-tv-review
***Apparently Obama, called a fossil-fuel, climate destroying lackey at DU, didn't have his staff give the weeping oilman anything but Kleenex. Obama had an oligation under our treaty with the UN to intervene to save civilians. Do people want us to leave the UN like the John Birch Society demands?
The description of the horrors that were being committed in Libya makes me understand why those who overthrew him were so brutal to him and his son. Just when did we develop such a protective feeling for people like this who we were obligated to provide support to take out of power to save lives? And who is funding the media that wants us to feel that way? And why?
Our insatiable thirst for oil helped give this man the power to do what he did. We didn't kill him and his family. His own people did.
