Well worth investing the time to read both (2 pages) of hte above Link....to understand the full impact here.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/19978/26/

Re: Feedback on the 60Minutes Special played on Sunday Feb.3 2008
"Illinois National Guard" units....waking up.

They enlisted, trusting that the cause was noble and that the commanders (including the commander in chief) were honorable men of their word. These ideas seem so ludicrous now. For these who actually believed the lies and believed in the honor of their commander in chief, the war in time will come only to represent a kind of innocence lost.

Now sadly many family members on the home front and many serving are beginning to awaken to the fact that they have been duped. The really sad realization that still has not fully hit is that they are engaged in an illegal enterprise, whose purposes have nothing to do with the spread of democracy or the national security of the United States.

On the contrary, their service represents one of the greatest threats to the peace of the world since Germany's expansionist dreams that culminated in WWII. I think this realization has penetrated to some level because most servicemen become extremely defensive and even angry when confronted with these facts.

Many family members react similarly. Who can really blame them? Is it possible to think of your fair-haired son or daughter whom you raised to be a moral person as a war criminal? By any objective standards of international law and even our own Constitution, the label must stand. It sickens me to look at the guileless faces of our young soldiers and see them in the same light as I used to view Hitler's proud, patriotic SS officers.

These soldiers cannot even say they were drafted as in Vietnam. They "volunteered" as rational free agents and so must bear the full moral responsibility for this war. I think I can understand why your producers might regard this addendum to be a little too far off topic for a sentimental piece about the suffering of the families of the Iowa National Guard and probably not in very good taste as well. The only problem is, I hardly ever see the subject of the legality and the morality of the war brought up at all in any context.

Now sadly many family members on the home front and many serving are beginning to awaken to the fact that they have been duped. The really sad realization that still has not fully hit is that they are engaged in an illegal enterprise, whose purposes have nothing to do with the spread of democracy or the national security of the United States.

On the contrary, their service represents one of the greatest threats to the peace of the world since Germany's expansionist dreams that culminated in WWII. I think this realization has penetrated to some level because most servicemen become extremely defensive and even angry when confronted with these facts.