Being a Viet Nam vet and having seen the same things happen, I know what it's like to see a child point an AK 47 at one of my buddies. It's an impossible decision to make unless you were in that situation. Hate seeing innocent people die, it's not the way things are supposed to be.

So many war movies are one sided and only portray our troops as heroes. I really enjoyed this movie because it shows all sides & how they affect each other. I liked "Jarhead" because it showed how boring war can be for some troops. I really liked "Restrepo" because it was real & we got to see how the war affected the troops in the end, after all the gung-ho macho attitude wore off. I liked "The Green Zone" because we got to see how our troops get lied to get them on-board for a war we probably should not have gotten into. I also liked "Hurt Locker" because it helped me understand how our troops end up feeling isolated from home & feel a strong sense of duty to each other.I Loved this movie because we also get to see how it affects the Iraqis and why they can't rat on the insurgents or feel like we are doing them a favor. It also illustrates how our government can hang a soldier out to dry after we've turned them into a psycho killer & can't understand why some of them just go off when the pressure gets unbearable.While I understand how some of the one-star reviewers could view this movie as some "liberal B.S." movie, I guess that's what being liberal is; trying to see something from both sides. If you're a left leaning Liberal, then the media appears to be run by corporations that censor the truth. If you are a right leaning Conservative, then anyone that doesn't agree with your point of view 100% is a "Communist Looser"I'm not sure I want to live in a world where I get all my news from Fox and all the war movies are basically propaganda films designed to get people to enlist for the cause. Not every war movie can be a "Saving Private Ryan" or a "Schindler's List". Most are fictionalized to a certain degree. You want to see a fictional gung-ho, right wing one sided movie, go see "Act of Valor". Yea, that really happened.