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by yamtaddle 1117 days ago
Never mind that the whole war was a crime in the first place, I guess.

"Sure he was robbing a bank, but that guard pointed a gun at him! That makes the killing justifiable!"

Well, it might. But under the circumstances, no, it doesn't.

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Fair enough, but that's a separate question from the matter at hand. LBJ escalated Vietnam and then bugged out. Then Kissinger and Nixon had to clean up his mess. Of course, they could have done a better job, but I still posit that taking the war into border lands of Cambodia was not a war crime.