i only have secondary and tertiary contacts, but i did spend a very interesting evening with a group of veterns.
it was at a bar in Georgetown last October, they were all from Boston, and we were watching the Red Sox in the playoffs (man, were they glad to be home! and just in time!), and the bar was crowded and we were all sort of lumped together.
they seemed rather ambivalent, and viewed it as simply a job that they had to do. they expressed no particular opinion on the Iraqi people, on the job itself, and pretty much focused on the baseball game. they comments were mostly about how hot it was, how Iraq seemed to them to be little more than a wasteland and if there weren't any oil than no one would give a damn about the country.
and they were all anti-Bush -- not in a passionate way, but very "he's not the man for this job; he's in way over his head."