He didn't want to go (who ever wants to go to war?) but once he got there he understood why they had to do it. He was there in the very beginning . His unit was the first to reach baghdad. He said that outside of Baghdad and a few other places that there was no plumbing or electricity. That Saddam had these people living in poverty and fear. He talked to the Iraqi people and heard the struggles they went through under Saddam. Not knowing if they would be carried out of their home because Saddam or his sons heard a rumor of what they might do. He talked about how when the US troops first got there the people were pretty nice to them and the troops were nice to the people. He said they had to start getting harder when the insurgency started up. He told me how the US troops used to have kids around all the time asking for candy and money. He said he used to give them the candy bars that was in his rations and he used to kick the soccer ball around with them. That had stop because the insurgents started using the kids. They would get a group of kids to gather around the troops while one would drop a grenade in the Jeep and they would all run, killing the soldier. He said the hardest thing he had to do was raise his gun to a group of kids to scare them off. He said he wouldn't have shot them but he had to do something to protect his men (He's a Sgt.). Did he agree with the war? No. But now he's gone and seen it with his own 2 eyes.