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Is volunteering for an unjust war wrong?

Suppose a war is very unjust, and the state which perpetrated it used an all-volunteer force. There was no conscription involved. Can a good argument be developed that this also make the soldiers morally culpable? 

Imagine we engage into some applied ethics then, and determine the Iraq War was unjust. Does this make every US soldier morally culpable for participating in the war as much as the politicians? Some people believe invading Iraq may have been just if the initial factual justifications (which have been disproved) for the invasion were true, like that Iraq possessed WMDs and harbored terrorists. It seems then that a defender of US soldiers could argue that they are not culpable for they have been deceived. However, if the war was unjust regardless of those factual claims being true or not, would the soldiers have been culpable from the beginning? Many people believe we should be placing moral blame only on politicians, but if soldiers are also culpable, then this argument holds no weight.
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It's important to note that the military regularly preys on lower economic classes that don't have many career opportunities. If we are to place blame on soldiers, one consideration will have to be if they joined because of economic necessity or because of their moral support of American foreign policy.