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This might get a lot of down votes but I want to say I don't think it's fair to blame the soldiers in the field for the choices of the decision makers in the office. Those horrible events were unwanted 'byproducts' of the goal of men with evil plans, they were not veterans going off-book. In other words, these veterans did what was asked of them. I'm not saying they didn't do some very bad things, but they aren't the people that should be 'thanked'.
imagine saying this about 9/11 hijackers -- they're just fighting for their country, don't blame them, blame Bin Laden!
I'm not saying don't blame the hijackers, I'm saying blame the hijackers for the hijacking (which in turn killed thousands) and blame Bin Laden for planning it and getting those hijackers to do the hijacking. They're both guilty, but without Bin Laden ordering 9/11 those hijackers wouldn't have done it. I'm not saying they wouldn't have something else bad. I'm not saying they're innocent. But Bin Laden did something worse than those individual hijackers.