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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
How was he indiscriminately blowing people away?
One of his kills was a woman carrying a hand grenade approaching a group of marines
His long kill was an insurgant carrying a rocket launcher waiting to ambush a convoy.
we can debate all day about the cost of the Iraqi war and the rightness or wrongness of it, but in the case of Kyle its not like he was randomly blazing away at people in the streets from a km away.
If the insurgents are giving you your own nickname and offering a $20,000 bounty then your obviously doing the job you're being paid to do.
I think your making a large leap.
And if your a sniper and you're either not good at your job, or you can't do your job then your a worthless sniper
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I get what you are saying, war is war. Follow your orders. And yes he was good at what he did, the best.
But in the 160 some odd people he killed, you cannot guarantee they were all evil scumbags. Many of these people felt they were invaded (which they were) and were simply standing up for being wrongfully so.
And by indiscriminately, I mean he was killing people where he had zero understanding of their situation. If the tables were turned, and the US was invaded, I am sure he would be putting his killing skills to work as well, like the insurgents. I believe one day, the Iraqi invasion, will be looked at as one of the most vile, deplorable things the US has ever done, and be a massive black eye on them in the global community. Some would argue it already is. So many needless deaths in that war, on both sides.