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Clearly the sniper wanted to make a statement. He did: He is Anti-islamic.

If you can't perceive how this plays right into the insurgents hands, how it would anger the local populace, how it endangers fragile alliances, how it puts his fellow soldiers at risk, you are not looking very hard.

The US is not anti-islamic, nor are our troops in Iraq for any religious reason, but this act creates the opposite perception.

Since everyone seems hooked on Patton, please consider that George S Patton, won because he was a great tactician. That he was "not PC" was a severe handicap which almost cost him his career.

If he had showed just a bit more tact, he would not have been removed from command by Ike after Sicily. He could have commanded at D-Day. But he had to let his ego and attitude get in the way. Too bad.