"As with the present war the focus of people's anger was against the politicians, not their victims in uniform."


No, the focus of people's anger, then as now, was against the people that they disagreed with, regardless of what they said about it.

I had a crewcut- I was a fascist.
I was in uniform- I was a baby killer.
I did not agree with them- I was evil incarnate.



"And if you got spat on by people who objected to the war I doubt if that was a common occurrence."

You have discussed this with how many of those who were in uniform then?

But my point is that I found thos characterizations ( short hair made me a baby killer, uniforms were only worn by facists) to be offensive. Yet that is NOT a reason not to discuss and sing the songs.

Or for a topic farther away, it appears to be OK to call people goons and such, if they are the ones who are on the other side of the union/worker vs management/company fight. So, what reason to object to THIS song? The person in question WAS a flaming ( literally) mad ( you think him both sane and even-tempered?) Moslem fanatic.