Terrance (Republic of T) addresses the conservative "support" of the troops:

The right, as a matter of policy, has never been all that supportive of the troops.

Not unless "supporting" the troops includes:

• sending them under false pretenses to invade an occupy a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction, and no links to Al Quaida, only to let Osama bin Laden slip away;
• sending them into combat in insufficient numbers, with inadequate ammunition, no body armor or armored vehicles;
• going to war with
• losing track of weapons being shipped to Afghanistan, and failing to keep accurate records on some 222,000 weapons entering the country (and this from the world’s biggest arms supplier) — making them vulnerable to being stolen and possibly used against American service members;;
• wasting billions on private contractors to do what what soldiers used to do — while either failing to provide oversight, or outsourcing it — for work that was never finished or so shoddily done that soldiers risked their lives just by taking a shower or drinking the water;
• engaging in a "stop-loss" policy, holding troops beyond the end of their enlistments;
• imposing a policy of repeat deployments and extended tours of duty, leading to stressed-out forces and suicidal soldiers, and a record number of suicides;
• opposing an expansion of veterans’ benefits, including extended unemployment insurance and domestic programs;
• leaving service members, some 40,000 of whom were diagnosed with PTSD by 2007, with insurance that skimped on mental health care;
• stressing our military to the breaking point through a policy of overall neglect;
• covering up and failing to honor their sacrifices;
• and then laughing about it (seriously);

This doesn’t even include taking veterans’ benefits hostage to score political points or cutting veteran’s benefits to pay off the deficit, even as thousands of veterans are homeless, struggling to find jobs, or coping with traumatic brain injury and other devastating war wounds.

Booing a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq? Talk about adding insult to injury.

I could tie this to the low rate of current Republicans/Tea Partiers who've served in the military, but that horse isn't breathing.