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by gknoy 4372 days ago
I'm not sure they qualify as that, but there are certainly people that believe that Robert McNamara was a war criminal [0]:

""" “We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo — men, women and children,” Mr. McNamara recalled; some 900,000 Japanese civilians died in all. “LeMay said, ‘If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.’ And I think he’s right. He — and I’d say I — were behaving as war criminals.”

“What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” he asked. He found the question impossible to answer. """

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewan...