Garett Reppenhagen reveals that the US stories about Saddam Hussein being part of 9-11 and having WMD unraveled soon after he was deployed to Iraq.
Rappenhagen differentiates between the drafted soldiers in Vietnam and the career oriented soldiers in Iraq and other countries in this new "war against terrorism." Now, only a small fraction of one percent of Americans serve in the army. This causes a disconnect between the reality of the soldiers fighting in a war and public understanding of that reality.
Rappenhagen believes that US nationalism and patriotism have taken over any sort of real religion. What our enemies were fearing was a war against a way of life--this was more dangerous than talk of religion and Bibles.
A military person might be able to disobey some orders, but a soldier disobeying an order to deploy will face ending up in Leavenworth. Rappenhagen is clear that it takes a lot of moral courage to resist fighting and refers to the resisters seeking asylum in Canada.
If you didn't get "a kill" in Iraq, you were often deemed a lesser man. There is enormous amount of peer pressure to compete with each other and constantly be harder and better than other soldiers. "They'll use any sort of way to insult you or degrade you to try to break you down and build you up the way they want it."
I was an American sniper, and Chris Kyleâs war was not my war
Donât make the mistake of thinking the hit movie captures the truth of the Iraq conflict. I should know. I lived it Garett Reppenhagen
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