His soldiers came to him with British and Hessian prisoners and asked how they should be treated--the same people who had starved, beaten and killed American wounded and captured.

And Washington ordered that they be treat humanely. And that order was never changed--until now.

It has been was disobeyed, but there was never a President who had the unmitigated temerity to think he could overrule George Washington.

But then, there has never been a President as bad as George W. Bush.