How come during war time, people can only protest the war and not the soldiers?

Like people protest the war in Iraq and stuff, they say they don't protest the soldiers, just the war.





Why don't they protest the soldiers also? Is it against the rules?|||During the Vietnam War, a lot of people did protest the soldiers, most of whom were drafted. When those soldiers came home, often traumatized by horrible experiences, many wounded in spirit as well as in body, they were spat upon, denied jobs and housing, treated as less than human, because they had done their duty and fought for their country just as their fathers and grandfathers had done in World War II (only they had been called heroes).





Soldiers are generally fighting for what they believe to be a good cause. They are fighting for their lives, for the lives of their buddies, fighting to defend freedom. Why would you want to protest them? It is the leaders of the countries who deploy the soldiers. They are the ones who set policy. They are the ones we should protest.|||They did during Vietnam, all that did was cause soldiers to become depressed and living off the government while the protesters became humiliated and couldnt get a job, much less a beautiful woman to give them the time of day|||They can't, they just say that to make it seem like they are patriotic and don't really hate soldiers.|||Why protest the unfortunate ones who actually have to deal with real problems and face death every day while we sit here and criticize the situation?





Weither you support the war or not, you should have respect for the majority of soldiers, esp young ones, who are trying to do the right thing for our country.|||After Nam,I for one won't let it happen again.|||Why should they protest the soldiers? The soldiers are doing a job, keeping freedom alive. Is school out or something?|||You're free to try. There's a base near you I'm sure. Stand outside the gate and protest. You'll make the news...and likely the obituaries.|||If it were without the soldiers the war wouldnt be as interesting.|||It is not the soldiers faults that they were sent to war. However do not get me wrong i am against any hired killers.|||Protesting the soldiers has always been foolish.





Soldiers and marines on the ground have taken an oath to defend us with their lives. Even die for us if necessary.





Most of us protesting the war don't wish to be joined by sentiment foolish enough to protest all things military.


I understand some people dislike all things military but for most of us that way-too-badly misses the point.





It's like trying to punch a post officer because he or she delivers a phone bill that's too expensive.


Most people who have served in really consequential combat come out wanting future generations to avoid large scale combat with extensive human death tolls even more than people who haven't been there first hand. Many Americans know this because they have family members who have come back from war and feel that way.





It is not retired military personel who want us to rush into more combat so much as civilian Chickenhawk leadership who avoided being in military service in harms way.





And there are veterans like McCain who are more opposed to our use of torture than nearly anyone.|||I don't think it is necessary to protest the soldiers. Because, They are just doing their Job as they have been commanded by their commander in Chief