The problem with unjust and without cause occupation of another nation is that you keep getting deeper and deeper in justifying violent suppression of natural/organic will to fight the occupier. This cycle continues until your original objectives become a faded memory and irrelevant. All you deal with then is the next attack and how to manage your next counter attack. Your soldiers become either numb to the unjust nature of their presents and few get vocal about the wrongs they are doing. But vast majority of them will carry on like a good soldier, because that is what they are trained to do and its human nature. It has nothing to do with valor or patriotism, these two qulaities come to play only when you fight injustice.

Mean while the occupied's goal remain the same as the first they of the shock and awe. The few sick soldiers will commit atrocities that will go unpunished, because you can't afford to deal with them just like in Vietnam, Israel, Sudan, Kuwait, Afghanistan, .... Few soldiers will do good humanitarian things but their work will drown in the sea of death and destruction.

Again its not the soldiers that are the evil doers. The policy makers will have to answer for this act. They who proposed and voted to invade and occupy knowing this would be the outcome, don't let them fool you that they didn't know. If they didn't know that we would be here today five years after that decision the whole system and political establishment is doomed. So, I don't believe for a minute that they didn't know!!!!