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From: Bob Necci & Carol Hrdlicka, Andi Wolos
(POW-MIA FaxNetwork)

Re: McNamara's Mea Culpa

Date: June 23, 1997

Robert McNamara, architect of America's longest war and now apologist in the process of rewriting history.

"I think in some respects it could have been avoided," McNmara said. "If it hadn't been avoided, I think it could have been terminated much, much earlier."

A stunning statement in light of the combined 3.6 million people who died during this brutal war... 58,000 of them American and 2,100+ still Prisoner or Missing.

McNamara, as part of the 'Missed Opportunites' Conference, which is winding down in Hanoi, has expanded on his previous admission which was provided in his published memoir in 1995. Since writing his book, going on the 'speaker's circuit' and traveling to Communist Vietnam, McNamara has used many an opportunity to profess his personal mea culpa. How tragic that this sudden insight did not overcome him 30 years ago, when he thought nothing of pushing the hot buttons on Congress and the public, escalating the war.

One wonders how many Killed-in-Action, Wounded-in-Action, Missing-In-Action and Prisoners Of War Mr. McNamara has on his hands.

Too little, too late, Mr. McNamara.