Punishment? Any one?

Sullivan:

"Just weeks after a national government and a major effort to pacify Baghdad, Iraq is witnessing sectarian massacres on a new and terrifying scale. 150 dead in three days. One recent massacre was by Sunni militias wearing Iraq national army uniform. The great danger of such unfathomable savagery is that, fueled by revenge killings and the lack of any credible government authority, it feeds on itself. This is why sufficient troops were such an important factor in the post-invasion plan. And why we - and thousands of murdered innocents - are now paying so brutally for Don Rumsfeld's pride." (Italics mine)

Ok, we've been seeing this for years from the Democratic side, but now even the most die hard conservatives; Buckley, Sullivan, Will, have taken the side that, at the least, the war was planned with incompetence and arrogance. My question to any one out there is, do we punish those people on the top for 1) a sense of justice and retribution, and 2) to deter anyone from following down this path of hubris? I mean when you think of it, alot--not all--but alot of this mess is from people like Bush committing these kind of acts, and not only getting away with it, but being defended and rewarded by the American government, in the form of political and financial retribution (pensions, connections with lobbyists, etc), and the continuing of the American cultural corpus that says that whatever we do is correct, footnoted with the phrase "and if it wasn't they had it coming for not being civilized in the first place"

Imperialization in Latin American countries, the rise of Cuba, the Islamic revolution in Iran, the rise of Saddam and Bin Laden, the rise of the Taliban, and much of the violence in the Middle East have roots in America. Now let me make this clear, I am not saying that America was the sole or main cause of these events. What I am saying is that America--in some respective fashion-- played a role in helping these events come into maturity, and denial of this role helps to maintain an atmosphere where these type of events can breed.

Thus, if we can come to the agreement that the Iraq war plan was shoddily devised, and fought for invalid reasons (and please, can we finally face the fact that Bush could have never sold a war to democritize a Middle East country? We didn't even care about the Rwandian genocide, so don't hand me that crap that all of a sudden, in Iraq, we were so worried about getting them voting that we needed to send 100,000 troops over there. If you believe that then you should send me one million dollars so I can build a starship that runs on the power of my smile.), then shouldn't these people be tried for war crimes? I just wanted to know your feelings.