‘American Sniper’ thrills Baghdad crowd: ‘Shoot him! He has an IED!’

Washington Times ^ | 1-28-15 | Douglas Ernest

[PGR88]

I imagine its a Shiite crowd at the theater. For them, the Sunni town of Fallujah might as well be another country.

[Mr. K]

It was a tough scene to watch... but he summed it up clearly- “That’s a special kind of EVIL”

[BenLurkin]

Agreed.

[Riley]

I believe that the rifle was of caliber ".338 Lapua Magnum". One possible load is a 300gr Sierra MatchKing at 2700 ft/sec.

Haven't seen the movie yet.

That's laying some serious energy downrange, though.

[slimer]

I had no problem watching that scene. By taking out the boy a future terrorist was eliminated and the woman was an enemy combatant. Yes war is hell! Kyle’s job was to protect the Marines - he did his job and he did it well.

[Mr. K]

it was more about a mother sending her child to his death, I can’t believe these evil creatures can do that

Golda Maier said it best - “there will be peace in the middle east when the arabs love their children more than they hate the jews”