7 big lies ‘American Sniper’ is telling America about Iraq and Chris Kyle. Raw Story

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12. It would have been easy to handle this and solve the problem

All they had to do was throw in a scene where he gets into a discussion with a fellow soldier or a group of protesters who bring up the war was based on a fucking lie. You can't tell me he and every soldier over there were not aware that this was a huge point of contention. In fact it was the whole reason he made up the fake confrontation with Jesse Ventura. He wanted to try and make people who questioned the war look un-patriotic as though they thought soldiers in Iraq should be killed. The movie could have shown how he had tunnel vision and was higher than a kite on nationalism. Or perhaps just had him pivot the way the Bush Admin did by saying Sadam was a tyrant even if he didn't attack us and was no threat to us but we need to bring democracy to the region. It would have instantly made the movie more real and interesting.

The problem with leaving it ambiguous is that millions of young people will watch this over the years and be brainwashed into thinking Iraq attacked us. Eastwood had a moral duty to INFORM the public that the whole premise of us being over there was complete and utter bullshit.