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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald

Sheehan did NOT die for his country. He was NOT fighting a foe that attacked his homeland. He was NOT fight ing a foe that was a threat to his country. He was NOT fighting a foe that was a threat to others in the region.

That is your view. There are numerous resolution violations that where commited by Iraq from the end of the first gulf war, to the point where the US invaded again, that if the UN had any balls, or was not corrupt, would have justified the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein.
Wiki on Saddam found here.

Saddam continued to loom large in American consciousness as a major threat to Western allies such as Israel and oil-rich Saudi Arabia, to Western oil supplies from the Gulf states, and to Middle East stability generally. U.S. President Bill Clinton (1993-2001), maintained economic sanctions, as well as air patrols in the "Iraqi no-fly zones". In October 1998, President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act.[23] The act calls for "regime change" in Iraq and authorizes the funding of opposition groups. Following the issuance of a UN report detailing Iraq's failure to cooperate with inspections, Clinton authorized Operation Desert Fox, a three-day air-strike to hamper Saddam's weapons-production facilities and hit sites related to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq responded by expelling UN inspectors.

Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald

Hussein was a paper tiger and was no threat to anyone. Everyone in the region knew, the American military knew it, and the rest of the world knew it. Sheehan's death is not only wrong and tragic, but perverse when you place it in the context you suggest.

Maybe you can tell that to the Iranian, Kuwaitis, Kurds, *****te's, Saudi's that he was no threat to anyone else in the region.
Sheehan re-enlisted in the US army after the Iraq war started. He obviously wanted to stay in the military, and serve his country. It may not have been in defense of his country, but it was in the defense of the Iraqi people.