For instance, in today's day and age, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, as the last 10 years have explicitly proven and even mainstream news have shown it without censorship, is constantly greeted in UK and Ireland with major hostility by crowds of people wherever he goes, who shout and display flags and banners, calling him a war criminal, a mass murderer, a political liar, a traitor, a coward etc for the 2003 Iraq war, and many of those people even have a personal grudge against him for the loss of their own family members in that war.
And that example by many is seen as justified outrage.
By using that above comparison as an analogy, was it necessarily wrong then to shout and speak badly of American Vietnam war veterans when they returned home, and how many of them were guilty of committing atrocities or war crimes during that war, and if war was illegal in and of itself, shouldn't they maybe also held accountable, or did they not know and thus don't hold as much a responsibility as the government members who sent them there?
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