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It's always been assumed that the only way for the Doctor to end the war was to destroy his people as well as the enemy, but at the end of season four more is revealed. As he explains in The End of Time, during the Time War the Time Lords were becoming too ruthless and too ambitious.

A quote from The End of Time:

Lord President: "We will ascend, to become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies, free of time, and cause and effect, while creation itself ceases to be."

The Doctor: " You see now? That's what they were planning, in the final days of the war... I had to stop them."

The Time Lords had been poisoned by war and ambition, and the Doctor had to stop them from going too far (as he began to do himself in The Waters of Mars) and becoming gods themselves, so he destroyed them and ended the Time War.

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