The anti-war movement never condemned veterans returning from Vietnam.

It recruited them, and many were eager to join.

This is why ever since Dubya conquered and occupied Iraq i have insisted on giving priority to condemning the war rather than "supporting our troops".

The support the troops needed, and deserved, was the movement to remove them from Iraq.

I never "thanked them for serving their country", because I refused to pretend that their mission in Iraq was any service to the United States.

Many of them joined with the intention of serving their country, but that's not what Dubya sent them to do.