[AbsoluteJustice]

No you cannot that is a hypocritical statement.

How can you support the very people that are carrying out the action that you oppose?

Is that not hypocritical? You cannot say that I support the people that are carrying out the action I am against. There is no way to back up that statement.

[Egregious Philbin]

What if a soldier is opposed to the very action he/she is carrying out?

[spectre]

I agree.

The anti-war opposition should just say "we wish the Troops well".

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[KantianBurke]

What were conservatives saying about our troops during Clintoon's Kosovo adventure or "Operation Desert Fox aka get impeachment out of the headlines?"

[MortMan]

I think there's a VERY fine line.

If a person stated before the war that it (the war) was wrong, that diplomacy or the UN or whatever was a better route to take, etc., that was fine. If this same person, after the commencement of hostilities stops bad-mouthing the CINC's decisions, openly embraces our troops, and shuts up about the pre-war issues (because they're moot), they can be said to oppose the war and still support the troops.

JMO A more accurate way to state the dichotomy and hypocrisy is this: Nobody can protest the war during the fighting and still claim to support the troops - that is rank hypocrisy.