This statement from the conservative Washington Times illustrates how clueless they are about the difference between the opinion of the justice of a war, and the not-at-all obligatory matching “contempt” for the people who have to carry out those orders. The burden of responsibility lies with the leadership. Obama asked us in his Democratic Convention keynote if “we were really serving (a name I forgot) well” ; he had just beamed about the dedication of this young man in the armed forces.

The tactical worship of a war hero – The Washington Times: Pruden on Politics – September 01, 2004

You would never know, from their late appreciation of military valor in Vietnam, how contemptuous Bill and Hillary once were of the men who fought that war three decades ago