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The American Sniper Was No Hero
Reason Magazine ^ | January 29, 2015 | Sheldon Richman

Posted on 02/02/2015 4:46:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Kyle was awarded two Silver Stars. Can anyone post the verbiage on those?
41 posted on 02/02/2015 5:48:34 AM PST by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: Nextrush
Besides hijacking our patriotism after 9/11 to police the world for the New World Order instead of winning a war for the American people, W also advanced liberalism by using the police war as a distraction for conservatives.

Nicely done. And Obama completed the job by surrendering our soldiers' every accomplishment. Iraq and Afghanistan are arguably worse off than before we began our war against terrorism.

42 posted on 02/02/2015 5:49:05 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If it sounds like a leftist douchebag, and walks like a leftist douchebag, and smells like a leftist douchebag, then it is a leftist douchebag.


43 posted on 02/02/2015 5:51:12 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: Flick Lives

Thank you for walking right into that trap.


44 posted on 02/02/2015 5:52:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Nextrush

I agree: we should have mobilized on the scale of after Pearl Harbor, after 9/11 and gone for full victory in the Middle East. We should have especially dealt with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the primary festering pustules in the world.


45 posted on 02/02/2015 5:53:05 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joss Whedon once said, “The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is.” Well, that’s who Chris Kyle was. He was a flawed individual in his own way, like just about everybody is. But that does not discount the courage he showed in tour after tour in Iraq, or marginalize the hundreds or thousands of troops he saved through his actions.


46 posted on 02/02/2015 5:54:19 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Old Sarge

I would say the comments are running at about 30% for, 70% calling him all the things we have been calling him.

The biggest “for” group is the “Bush is evil and should be executed” crowd.


47 posted on 02/02/2015 5:55:10 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’re welcome!


48 posted on 02/02/2015 5:58:50 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is libertarian mainline thought. Not as nasty as Wrong Paul’s diatribes against our troops back in ‘91 and ‘92, but still typical.

The Libertarians on this board will do what liberals always do. Lie, and claim it doesn’t matter. The only issue the libertarian party is conservative on is taxation. In every other area they line up with the hard left. Military included.


49 posted on 02/02/2015 6:10:57 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: wbarmy

Forty years from now, a Leftist will be in a government-mandated “end-of-life-dignity” facility, lying in a pool of her own piss, gasping out with her death rattle:

“BUSH STOLE THE ELEC...uuughgnghgn”

Hate like this never dies.


50 posted on 02/02/2015 6:11:20 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: MrEdd; Flick Lives

Which is the main reason I posted it, vile as it is.


51 posted on 02/02/2015 6:14:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
BTW, just in case someone wants to bring up the “No WMDs” LIE, No less than the New York Slimes admitted they were present in Iraq:
(Published: October 14, 2014)

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?

(Published: Nov 14, 2014)
More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq, Pentagon Acknowledges
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/middleeast/-more-than-600-reported-chemical-weapons-exposure-in-iraq-pentagon-acknowledges.html?_r=1

52 posted on 02/02/2015 6:19:33 AM PST by StaffiT (It takes a special kind of stupidity to think criminals will obey gun laws)
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To: bray

I’m unfamiliar with this sheldon guy but the comments at the link were hilarious in their arguments on whether he is a libertarian, prog, or just plain nutz!


53 posted on 02/02/2015 6:21:49 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

The ones I read were defending him and wanting our troops tried for war crimes. Liberaltarians are Marxists in a different suit.


54 posted on 02/02/2015 6:28:28 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“A nation that does not honor it’s warriors will be defeated by one that does.”


55 posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:56 AM PST by stockpirate (Islam, the Church of the Anti-Christ, submit or die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another reason the Libertarians are utterly insignificant EXCEPT as a force to sink conservative candidates from time to time. But in the battle against liberalism? Meaningless.


56 posted on 02/02/2015 6:31:30 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: central_va

Once Saddam was deposed, the American Forces were ALLIES of the legitimate Iraqi government. Americans were not occupiers, but liberators, then allies of the newly freed Iraqi people against the depraved SAVAGES, who were murdering Iraqis by the bushel.


57 posted on 02/02/2015 6:34:51 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have freedom or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: Jabba the Nutt

I wonder if Iraqi “insurgents” fight ISIS with the same verve as US occupational forces?


58 posted on 02/02/2015 6:37:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it is indisputable that leftists/liberals/DemocRATS hate America.


59 posted on 02/02/2015 6:40:42 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet another commie liberal head explodes.


60 posted on 02/02/2015 6:46:22 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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