"The claim isn't that he was totally anti-war, just that he wanted to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and was opposed to the Iraq war."
A statement that would be familiar to many G.Is during WW2 as to why they were in Europe instead of in the Pacific fighting Japanese Empire who actually attacked us.
Typical GI gripe.
My father in-law fought in Europe, I remember him telling me what the morale was like when shortly after Germany surrendered, the U.S. troops in theater were told to that they were going to be sent half-way around the world to get ready for the invasion of Japan.