Thank you! I had to scroll through three dozen DU-worthy diatribes to find your reasoned assessment. There's a bit too much military worship on FR these days, and way too much fawning over anything labeled "special operations" -- as if these subsets of America are inherently more moral or righteous than everyone else. Here's a news flash: a SEAL can lie just like anyone else, and in this case a jury examined the evidence and determined that a SEAL did lie and in so doing libeled another person. Regardless of what one thinks about Jesse Ventura, there is no honor in lying.
Maybe a Seal did lie. I don’t know and I don’t care. The point is the matter should have ended when said Seal died leaving a widow and child. A decent man would never pursue her to ‘clear his name’ about a bar fight let alone a buffoon who parades around in a fake wrestling ring. There is not enough scorn in the world to pour on the jackass.
Thanks for the sober post
OK, this is the Wash Compost, but it confirms what I’d read before. And the feeling I got watching Kyle when he was promoting his book:
“determined that a SEAL did lie and in so doing libeled another person.”
NO, they didn’t determine anyone lied. They rendered a verdict. There were witnesses that claim the events were as stated. They no more rendered verdict as to the truth than the OJ jury.