As someone that was in the Army and was in Iraq during that time, it never ceases to amaze me how people who never served think they know why we were there. These were Taliban fighters that were killing Iraqi citizens. Does nobody even remember when they shared the video where they were removing the heads of journalists? How about when they drove a vehicle into a highly populated area in Baghdad that was full of explosives? This is the kind of nonsense I saw constantly on Twitter where I was called a child murderer or told to kill myself. This country has turned their backs on us Veterans and that says a lot about the current state of our society. This just shows other people the deranged perceptions of these people that see everything through the lens of racism.