Justification... I have never felt good about what happened. The war itself was not my fault. I inherited it, more or less, and the men I killed were to defend my people. I believe all of my decisions will ultimately benefit my people, though Sentience, then and now, sees the inevitable causalities of war as reasons for imprisonment. I suppose in the abject way I cannot argue it, though I would do it all again to defend my soldiers and people.
[His other one, his abandonment of duty, he kept out of his explanation, because that was, in many ways, selfish, and he had no justification for it.]