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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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Well, many of the "combatants" in the Iraq war weren't military men and women. Many were civilians turned to arms in one way or another. As a result, do we have any idea why a woman was approaching American servicemen with a grenade like that? Was it because her house and family were bombed by American artillery or fighters? Was she just a brainwashed zealot? I don't know if I'd call it indiscriminate killing, but I would call it morally repulsive killing in defense of your invading force. Sure, he was probably ordered to do it, but I don't give the Nuremberg Defense much credence.
It's not exactly something admirable, where I stand, and certainly nothing to be given a label like "American Hero" over, as it seriously lessons that title when given to people that actually deserve it. There's no doubt in my mind that he likely killed some really bad people, but I also can't help but think he more than likely killed some decent people, too, that turned to weapons because of a feeling that they needed to defend their country or out of some sort of grief. There is something disturbing about so many people in a country labeling a man that has killed more than 100 people, says he has no problems, ever, with having done so, and goes on talk shows about it and makes money off of it, in an illegal and morally wrong invasion a hero.