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As I see it, Motorboat Cruiser, you are supporting what you wish they would do (come home safe), not what they are actually doing (killing and subduing Iraq). You're not really supporting them, you're offering them support if they do what you want. Admiration is not support.
As for the idea that you and BarTopDancer above you state: how does monetary incentive absolve a soldier from the moral content of their actions? If killing Iraqis is unjust, does it become less so because someone was offered a $20,000 re-enlistment bonus.
Also, to say that someone is absolved of moral responsibility simply because they signed up for one thing and then were ordered to do another is to reward moral cowardice. Every soldier has the ability to not be in Iraq. If the government told me to go kill someone I did not agree was justified I would go to jail first. As soon as we start shooting soldiers who refuse deployment to Iraq then I'll begin to feel they are absolved of moral responsibility for their acts. It is ok to unjustly kill Iraqis because you are unwilling to go to jail? I don't buy that.
Despite the fact that they were "just following orders" any soldiers who participated in the invasion of Panama are responsible for their actions and did not have my support (though I certainly did not want them to die unless them doing so was the only way that the invasion of Panama would fail).
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