Cheney a "War Criminal?" I Doubt It

Well Jill over at "Brilliant at Breakfast" is at it again. She has been beating the drums and blowing the horns about Dick Cheney being a "war criminal" for quite some time. Apparently water boarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation" seem to hold some kind of problem for her and her many readers. Of course "enhanced interrogation" is nothing more than code for torture which Cheney apparently supports. So do I. If anything prevents another attack on our soil then anything goes. Al Qaeda operatives and their ilk are not uniformed soldiers of any nation and are nothing more than terrorists. They therefore, in my opinion, do not have rights under the Geneva Convention and certainly should not have any rights in the civilian American Justice System. Now if drugs can be used in obtaining information about terrorist activities and plans then so much the better. Torture would then not be a viable option. I would support that as long as the end result was the same - The execution of the terrorist operative as soon as it is determined that any and all useful information has been extracted.
Now back to Cheney - Jill and her ilk can argue that the man is a "war criminal" until the cows come home. That is a ridiculous notion. Why? Only the winner in any military contest gets to decide who is a war criminal and who is not. The loser gets to accuse the winning party of war crimes but only the winner gets to prosecute the losing party for said "crimes." An interesting example would be Heinz Guderian insinuating that the American and English Air Force committed war crimes by the continual bombing of civilian targets toward the end of WWII. He states so quite succinctly in his memoir "Panzer Leader." He may in fact have a point, but as Germany was on the losing end of WWII they were not in any position to actually prosecute those responsible for the bombing on any charges. Again the winner gets to pick. Now of course those Mohammedans that oppose the U.S. and our allies will be quick to blow the "war crimes" trumpet to no avail. Jill and her ilk perpetuating the notion that Cheney is a "war criminal" borders on treason. They, as American citizens, can certainly have their opinions, but to publicly accuse those responsible for defending our nation by necessary means of war crimes has pretty much crossed the line in my book. At the very most Cheney can be accused of nothing more than being an old blow hard incompetent. Incompetent? Of course!! Where is Bin Laden and why does the Taliban, Pasdaran, etc. etc. even still exists at this point? War Criminal? No! Blustery old fool? Absolutely.