Been there, done that?

... but if you talk to people who have actually been there (as I have) ....

When did you go to Iraq, Steve?

It's all well and good for you to throw verbal bombs in ruffled, self-righteous, liberal indignation, but without a basis in reality, you're engaging in little more that armchair quarterbacking.

Since when do you have to actually go to war to know that it's wrong? Sure, these guys volunteered to join the military. But my guess is that more than half of them had no idea what they were getting into. Naive, yes. But lots of them enlist for college funds, to travel, or because they don't have a clue what else to do with their lives and some recruiter pressured them into it.