I think the first text is too soon. I game with a friend whose team leader was killed in Iraq just last year. Throwing words around like horrifying, fury, mercilessly, and brutal creates a certain picture of the U.S.
The real point is that the U.S. military would be the ones that have to perform the violent acts described in the first blurb. The idea of doing something so terrible so violates what American soldiers, Marines, airman, sailors, and Coast Guard believe that we can't wrap our minds around it. I don't care what the President or some general says, when I was active military I would take a court martial and be shot before carrying out orders like those described in the first blurb. I was taught that in boot camp; you don't obey an unlawful order.
Hell, my wife's grandpa was just honored for serving in WW II (her other grandpa served as well, E-1 to E-7 in four years, but he has passed away). Her uncle and both my uncles served in Vietnam Nam. Both sides of our families are filled with veterans who stuck our necks out not on American soil but overseas to protect both U.S. interests and those of nations whose freedom was under attack (France, Great Britain, China, and Kuwait to name a few).
The text came too soon. There are still U.S. military personal fighting in Afghanistan. The bodies of our buddies who died in Iraq are barely cold yet. Give us gamers who happen to also be veterans a few months to grieve and for those just returning from Iraq time to readjust to being home before throwing the U.S. under the bus.
Or not. I fought so that FFG has the right to make games with whatever the hell blurb they want on it (long as it doesn't break the law, which it doesn't). If they want to turn the U.S. into the bad guys and ignore the many times we've fought for democracy (Europe, Asia, and Africa in two world wars) and the underdog (Kuwait in the first Gulf War for example) they've been given that right to do so. I don't think the first blurb makes sense, but others do so maybe it works. Of course, FFG changed it so maybe they see veterans point of view after all.
I don't have to like the first blurb though or the thought that went into dreaming it up. And I have the right to voice my disgust. I've more than earned that right as well. If I can't have the opinion that the U.S. is a nation to be proud of, I suppose ENWorld shouldn't have opened this thread up at all.