Email from a Journalism Grad Student

"I am an M.A. student in journalism at UW-Madison. I have read your blog and enjoyed it. I enjoy trying to understand the experience of soldiers in Iraq and your blog has helped me to do this.

I am currently researching an article for a journalism class regarding the opinion about the Iraq War of people in Wisconsin who have lost loved ones in the war. I have spoken to several parents of soldiers who were killed in Iraq.

I have noticed that these parents fall roughly into two groups: people who feel that protesting the war dishonors their sons and other soldiers; and people who have the opposite opinion. Among the former group, people have told me that they (and soldiers) feel that opposition to the war is equivalent to not supporting the troops."
Midnight in Iraq

And interesting discussion, yet I would extend it a little. For one there are people like me, I think, that support the troops, the mission, but do not support the leadership or the strategy being employed to reach the missions end. So I wonder how they might respond if you threw that wrench into the picture.