There are/were DU'ers that were opposed to BOTH the Iraq war AND the Israeli response to Oct.7

[Ping Tung]

10. I started opposing war when I was in the marines.

The escalation of the war in Vietnam had begun and it was obvious where it was heading. I was a few months away from getting out but I (and everybody else) still had to qualify as a killer on the rifle range.

It was a beautiful morning in the hills near the base. A bit chilly at first but it warmed up nicely. Meadowlarks were singing. At one point we had to lay down and pop away at silhouette targets of "enemies". We just relaxed and waited for the targets came up. When they did I banged away. They would pull the targets down plaster them with little round white indicators of there the bullets hit and pull them up so we could see the results. I was a good shot and my hits were pretty close together near the center of the silhouette.

For some reason, at that moment, I realized what those little white pieces of tape stood for. They meant that I could be sent off to Vietnam and ordered to kill people I didn't know, had nothing against, and might have become friends with. All so LBJ could burnish his Anti-Communist creds.

They asked me to re-enlist or extend my enlistment for a year. They offered me a promotion and the pick of stations to be assigned. I knew the Gunny Sgt as a pretty decent guy so I told him what I really thought about the war, LBJ, and the Marine Crotch (as we called it).
I ended up getting 30 days of mess duty which I suspected had something to do with my commentary. In late June of 1965 my enlistment was up and I was finally free.

I got a job and started college and joined in the anti-war demos. It took awhile to move beyond being against that war and becoming a pacifist against all war and violence. But, the more I saw the wars that happened since and studied the history of them (I got a b.a. in history) the more convinced I've become that most people around the world want no part of the madness created by "strong leaders" that has ended with millions of dead people who just wanted to live their lives.

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”

Bertrand Russell