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Originally Posted by TGTIW
To Rick's point above, I believe evidence has it that those worthless ****ers in Iraq didn't actually start it..
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I read the book and saw the movie and can't recall Kyle shooting any regular Iraqi military personnel. All his targets wore civilian clothes and most were foreign fighters. As far as who started it, sure, we invaded, but there was plenty of history before that which led up to the invasion. (Iraq invaded Kuwait and was never in compliance with the cease fire agreement.) The Iraqi military was totally defeated in a matter of days. What came thereafter I wouldn't blame on the US. We didn't invite foreign fighters to Iraq in search of jihad. But it's not really a bad thing that AQ decided to continue the fight in Iraq, where we could kill more of them in one place. I just don't think Zarqawi and his ilk were ever going to really carry out a terrorist attack on US soil. Sure, it's good we took him out and as many of his followers as we could. But none of that was defending our rights or way of life all the way over here.