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There are certainly at a minimum tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese civilians who's deaths are a direct consequence of Kissinger explicitly calling for more bombing. As in, were there a more judicious Sec. of State in place at the time of war, more civilians and their descendants would be alive today.

I won't place the Vietnam war as his sole responsibility. But he alone made several decisions around scope of the war that directly killed civilians.




All true. All outside the definition of 'war criminal'? Just noting here, that that term has an actual definition. Probably it isn't met in this case.




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