This article is written by Robert Richter, who was the CBS political director during the 1960's. He writes compellingly about a controversial issue that is rarely spoken about. Whether or not fighter bombers in the Viet Nam war should be charged as war criminals, due to their flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions that prohibit bombing of civilian areas. As it turns out, a documentary on the subject was done by a general back in the day, and CBS refused to show it, because they felt it was too hot.

Now that Mr. McCain is running for president, he is holding up his position as a bombing pilot as heroic duty for which he should be honoured. But the facts have shown, that he and his colleagues, have killed many millions of Vietnamese civilians by their incessant bombing of civilian enclaves. If the tables were turned, and Vietnamese pilots were bombing civilian enclaves in the United States, when they were captured, as McCain was, they would have been tried as war criminals.

I've heard that the head of the U.S. Air Force in WWII thought he could be found guilty of war crimes -- IF -- the USA lost the war.

Due to his firebombings. And some strikes that seemed intended to kill massive number of civilians, like the bombing of Dresden in WWII.

(P.S. - It's no wonder Kurt Vonnegut had such a twisted view on life, starting with his book: Slaughterhouse-Five, which was about when he was a prisoner of war in /Dresden when this happen)