Nazi Sniper, I mean American sniper has some issues

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2015)

So, these Germans invade Poland, do a huge amount of damage, are completely in the wrong, yet the Germans are good soldiers and are told they are protecting the fatherland/homeland by killing the hell out of "Poland" yet those pesky Poles just don't seem to be that appreciative and mount a resistance, as would anyone whose land is invaded. The good German soldiers think they are in the right and that the resisting Poles are savages and there are some really good German snipers who kill lots of "savages" and are considered heroes and protectors of all that is right in the world. Maybe these Germans are actually decent people who want to believe that what they are doing is a really good thing, although from any vantage point outside of Germany, these soldiers are considered monsters and heinous invaders. No matter that when one of these "heroes" dies and is honored by other Germans for his heroic and patriotic service, the whole enterprise still remains barbaric and monstrous. The fact that these soldiers experienced the horrors of war, killed and watched their comrades die and then were plagued with PTSD begs the question, why the f__k were they there in the first place? Oops, I got confused.... I meant the US invading and destroying Iraq, the fact that US soldiers, true believers who are easily swayed, become psycho killers, had problems on returning from their country destroying efforts, no matter how well intended fails, (what a surprise), to give the proper context. So, Eastwood makes a decent, up close and personal account of doing battle against the bad guys, bad guys here include little kids and women, which also begs the question, why would kids and children want to do bad things to Americans, the bestest people in the whole world? They must, just must be savages/monsters.....So, yes, this is propaganda, a bit more nuanced than usual, but no different than zero dark thirty claiming that torture worked, or any of the other movies of this ilk. To be clear, if it isn't already, we, the US, are the bad guys, the evil Germans if you will, the invasion of Iraq was illegal and a war crime of vast scale, the fact that decent and possibly not so decent US soldiers were involved and had their patriotism used in service to this awful purpose is the story that must be told, but probably won't. Instead, we have the end of the movie where the roads are lined with those honoring the dead psycho-killer who in his own biography bragged about his unquestioning murder of scores of Iraqis who may or may not have been soldiers.