if we don t keep the story alive and tell the truth i agree but the website doesn t mention the holocaust. it doesn t mention it anywhere on the website and you re dressing up as ss officers. they ran the concentration camps. i get re-enactment but i don t get dressing up as an ss officer. there are no ss officers in theres with a matter of clarification. they are all enlisted personnel. but it s part of the teaching process. we talk about all of this. again, the website is not something for general public consumption where we re trying to get a message across to the general public about the whole picture of the war. to jewish voters in your district, you re running for congress right now and they look at the atlantic and see this picture of you and you won t say
were doing a good thing, too. that doesn t make it so. do you think these were valiant men? i don t think we can sit here and judge that today. we were not there the time they made those decisions. were there bad people? absolutely. were there atrocities committed? absolutely there were. there are people that want to deny the holocaust ever happened in this country and around the world. if we don t keep the story alive and tell the truth i agree but the website doesn t mention the holocaust. it doesn t mention it anywhere on the website and you re dressing up as s.s. officers. they ran the concentration camps. i get re-enactment but i don t get dressing up as an s.s. officer. there are no s.s. officer in there. as a matter of clarification. they are all enlisted personnel. but it s part of the teaching process. we talk about all of this. again, the website is not something for general public consumption where we re trying
late details on the rescue operation under way. and later tonight, murder on pirate lake. a woman s husband missing, shot dead, she says, by mexican bandits right in front of her. not everyone believed her story. today, new developments but also, a possible setback. tiffany hartley joins us tonight in crime and punishment. we begin keeping them honest with a candidate that used to dress up like a nazi. a world wore two re-enactor on the german side pretending to be a member of adolph hitler s killing machine, the ss. this is rich iott. tea party candidate for ohio s 9th congressional district. he s the one in the uniform called the vikings. he took part under his own name with his son and he did this from 2003 two three years ago. he says he started doing it to bond with his son and points out he took part in civil war re-enaboutmentes and other world war i and world war ii
exactly their plan is for those prisoners. joining me now, mark jacobson. he served in afghanistan as adviser to general david petraeus. mark, i ll begin with you. you worked on some of these issues with petraeus in the bush administration. in iraq, let s just take the example of iraq, not even talking about taliban. in iraq, all of that was conducted under the normal laws of war. there were insurgents who tried to kill american troops, who blue up marines with ieds who were released back, am i correct? if you take a look back at the arguments during the early phase of the iraq war, there are going to be people in conflict who do bad things. look even further back, this is when larry was at the state department, take a look at the arguments over the taliban and al qaeda. there were nazi ss officers
thousands of thousands of valiant men died. no matter how unsavory the soldiers were, the front line, in particular the foreign volunteers, gave their lives with a basic desire to be free. the website emphasizes they were fighting against communism defending holland, denmark and norway. they were fighting for the nazi conquest of russia. as they put it in the atlantic . that s what these folks are doing in the east. it goes on to say it sents a shiver up my spine to think people want to dress up and play ss on the weekend. you won t find that on the nazi re-enactor s website. they were involved in war crimes