What does the military think of the Iraq War?

You're not going to make Iraq safe for democracy, the sergeant said. You are going for one reason alone: oil. But you're still going to go, because you signed a contract. And you're going to go to bring your friends home.

These are the words of highest ranking enlisted man of a Marine unit in Kuwait in February 2003 before the invasion and before we knew what a cluster f*ck the invasion was going to turn out to be.
David Goodman gives us the scoop on soldiers Breaking Ranks in Mother Jones.

More and more U.S. soldiers are speaking out against the war in Iraq -- and some are refusing to fight.

The people who really know what's going on in Iraq, the soldiers on the ground and their families are increasingly speaking up.

In a 2003 Gallup Poll, nearly one-fifth of the soldiers surveyed said they felt the situation in Iraq had not been worth going to war over. In another poll, in Pennsylvania last August, 54 percent of households with a member in the military said the war was the wrong thing to do; in the population as a whole, only 48 percent felt that way. Doubts about the war have contributed to the decline of troop morale over the past year and may, some experts say, be a factor in the 40 percent increase in Army suicide rates in Iraq in the past year. That's the most basic tool a soldier needs on the battlefield, a reason to be there, says Paul Rieckhoff, a platoon leader in the New York National Guard and former JPMorgan banker who served in Iraq. Rieckhoff has founded a group called Operation Truth, which provides a freewheeling forum for soldiers' views on the war. When you can't articulate that in one sentence, it starts to affect morale. You had an initial rationale for war that was a moving target. [But] it was a shell game from the beginning, and you can only bullshit people for so long.

Shades of Vietnam, an ill conceived politically motivated war and the rank and file are not happy.