I might consider Kyle a hero if he had been performing his job on American soil. As it stands, he was just a mercenary for the empire.

America was the aggressor and invading force in the Iraqi war. The Iraqis were defending their country and therefore they were the only ones who had the right to use violence. I don’t know if I would go so far as to call Kyle a murderer; that’s a bit extreme as the people he killed weren’t entirely innocent. They were trying to kill members of his gang.

If Kyle really did find it fun and enjoyable to kill people then I would call him a psychopath too.

Every time one makes it a democrat/republican issue one distracts from the fact that both parties are just different sides of the same coin.