Kill a Few for the Gipper

Its a title appropriate to Iraq, when you consider the reasons given for going to war: first it was Saddam's WMDs; then it was removing a brutal dictator and saving hundreds of thousands of lives; then it was installing Democracy in the Middle East; then it was Democracizing the world; and now it is all of them combined into one grand "reason". But justification for war is not my main theme this time but "troop morale".
An issue being talked about but not analyzed to any degree. The question that should be asked is; "what is the result of having "high troop morale?"
My experience with it meant that the troops were psychologically "up" to doing anything they were ordered to do; i.e., kill and get killed. A soldier with "high morale" is "gung-ho", willing to charge forward on command, put him/herself into danger.
I'm sure most parents and friends told their departing loved ones to keep their heads down and not take chances--a contradiction to what "high morale" advocates want their troops to do.
A military commander doesn't want their troops thinking about saving their hides when he wants them to attack. What do parents want--to have their kid dead or alive?
"Low morale" might mean that troops will act out of a sense of self-preservation, preferring to keep their heads down and not forge recklessly forward on some officers command.
The whole issue of high versus low morale boils down to why are we in Iraq in the first place.
Commanders and the administration have been lying to the troops over and over about how they are getting back at the terrorists for 9/11, that they are fighting for "freedom" of the Iraqi people and the U.S. "Low morale" means the troops aren't buying into the propaganda.
The title "Kill a Few for the Gipper"? It's a wonder the Neo-Cons didn't think of it as a slogan--for morale's sake.