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I agree, but did he really become a war monger or "bad guy"? A lot of his studies did end up causing massive amounts of harm and he was the SOD during the Vietnam war but in many of the recordings he wasn't outspoken in any opinion. He said to LBJ that they needed to scale back the troops in Vietnam , LBJ disagreed, and so McNamara ended up going with the presidents opinion. I think he was more walking a very fine line than anything else. Am I holding McNamara in a high regard? Yeah and that's probably causing me to overlook some points made in the documentary about him being a war monger. Maybe you can point some out to me that I forgot.