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He quoted LeMay as saying that if they lost the war they would be tried as war criminals. That is not quite the same thing as saying that he (or LeMay) thought they were war criminals.

If an act can only be justified as being likely to bring victory, and you lose tha war, does it become a war crime in retrospect?

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I was shocked when McNamara said he was basically a war-criminal and would have likely been tried as such had we not won the war. Truly excellent documentary.

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