Posted on 02/08/2015 7:00:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Jury selection for the trial for Eddie Routh, the man who killed American Sniper Chris Kyle and fellow Navy SEAL Chad Littlefield, is supposed to begin this week in Stephenville, Texas.
For months we’ve been hearing that Eddie suffered from PTSD and that the VA is to blame for not getting him on potent enough dope, or too-potent dope; and failed to farm him out to an exorcist to have his war demons banished forever; and thus, the VA is the reason Eddie snapped and killed an American icon and his fellow SEAL friend.
Heck, I’m surprised we haven’t heard “The Low Blood Sugar Excuse” tossed out there as the reason Routh killed Kyle: “Eddie, you see, has low blood sugar, and if he‘d had a Snickers, Chris would still be alive.”
Or… or… “Eddie could have also killed Chris and Chad because his third grade teacher never called on him during class when he raised his hand, and that wounded his inner-child, and that’s why Eddie murdered two stellar and innocent soldiers who were trying to help him.”
Why not parlay those excuses as well? The aforementioned makes about as much sense as the PTSD defense that’s been batted around on Eddie’s behalf. A pretext, mind you, that is currently getting severely hammered by the Warfighter Foundation.
Check it out …
The Warfighter Foundation alleged that Eddie Ray Routh, 27, the Marine veteran accused of murdering Navy SEAL Kyle two years ago, never saw combat nor experienced traumatic situations during his time serving overseas.
Eddie Routh served one tour in Iraq in 2007, at Balad Air Base (the 2nd largest U.S. installation in Iraq), with no significant events. No combat experience. Let me say that again, he NEVER SAW COMBAT or any aspect of traumatic events associated with a combat deployment (i.e. incoming mortar or rocket fire). He never left the base, EVER.
The Warfighter Foundation, a nonprofit veterans group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain information about Routh’s service record. It was through the information they received that the group discovered Routh had not experienced any type of combat.
Matter of fact, the base that Mr. PTSD was stationed at was pretty cush.
According to MilitaryBases.com:
Joint Base Balad benefited from some of the best facilities. It was almost a luxurious installation. The military troops had access to swimming pools, dancing lessons, a movie theater, American restaurants and snack bars. The housing facilities were just as advanced. The facilities were probably some of the most important factors that drew the celebrities and officials’ attention during their visits.
Sounds rough, eh? Pools, Pizza Hut, Dancing, Movies … holy crap… oh, the pain.
Garsh … that’s enough to push even the strongest amongst us over the edge and compel one to murder innocent friends who’re trying to help you out, right? No? Yeah, I guess you’re right. Sounds like BS to me, also. However, maybe Eddie imagined, like Brian Williams, that he was actually in war, when he wasn’t, and that’s how he got PTSD. That’s a possibility…
Another interesting twist in The PTSD Eddie Routh Ruse came from the laptop of Walid Shoebat last week. Walid, an expert in all things Islam, points out some interesting and very overlooked ditties about Eddie.
Check out these interesting, and Islamic, nuggets from Walid…
When we evaluate cases for potential Muslim terrorists, we always look for physical signs like a trimmed mustache and a beard that is lesser trimmed. And when it comes to a crime that was committed, we look at who the victims are. In the story on Eddie Routh who murdered Chris Kyle, there are signs of concern, especially the facial hair, it does match the profile of a convert.
Also, Routh was a prison guard over Muslim terrorists at Balad Airbase in Baghdad in 2007. He never served in battle, but spent most of his time looking and talking to Muslims in jail. He could have likely interacted with the inmates and got converted; prison has a higher conversion rate than any mosque. Also, why would he kill a Navy SEAL who was known to have killed so many terrorists? [Especially, given that Kyle had a price on his head?]
Examining [Kyle’s] killer gives also clues. “During a phone call with his father, Routh expressed sympathy for the detainees and discontent over how the US was conducting the war as well as his reluctance to engage in combat” and “While working as a guard at Balad Air Base, Routh laments his [Muslim] prisoners’ poor living conditions”.
Let's sum up Shoebat’s alarms: Routh spent a lot of time and sympathized with Islamic radical prisoners and was sporting the no-mustache-with-beard Muslim facial hair when he came back and killed Kyle.
Sounds kinda weird to this redneck, but then again maybe Eddie really admired Abe Lincoln’s facial hair.
“Islamic hair”??????
That’s quite a stretch if that is all they have to make this statement. Townhall is rapidly becoming a joke.
I better shave.
It’s like a hoodie, only hairier.
If there is any connection, this administration will stonewall it.
Just look at the foot dragging and denials in the Ft. Hood case.
Pretty thin...both his hair and the argument trying to be made.
Did they ever report what type of gun was used in the killing? Surprised the media buried this info as if it were an AR15 or an AK it would have been screaming in the headlines. I am still wondering was it a 9mm, .40 cal, .38 special or even the lowly .22LR???
Did this scum bag kill the second man at the same time and place that he killed Kyle?
Maybe it’s Duck Dynasty facial hair.
Yes. At the range. Cold blooded murder.
Exactly. Bunch of paranoid morons. I stopped reading their crap a long time ago.
Geez, I “Sport” facial hair too. So did my dad, grandfather, and great grandfather too. Probably ran in the family before that.
No you are a joke because you don't know the difference between an author of a column (Doug Gile) and a web-paged publication Townhall.com and a print magazine.
Instead of criticizing Townhall.com why don't you read the article and then criticize the article if you must but not the puplisher
No doubt about it
No kidding. About half the millenial peckerwoods I see lounging around the university area have crappy beards.
Yeah, they said the Fort Hood massacre was a “disgruntled shooting”...kinda...thing...
Not an iSLAMIC MUSLIM TERROR MASSACRE-KILLING LIKE IT WAS!
This is not the first time I have read an article with such a “stretch” from TH. As such, I will not use them to verify anything.
Their bias is clearly showing. They want to create a link between the guy who shot Kyle and islam. If one exists it will become known. But to create one out of thin air?
Sorry, you can defend that nonsense if you want. Not me.
According to a former radical Muslim, there is a strict requirement among at least some radical Muslims that men grow a beard, but at the same time, their mustache *must* be trimmed.
At the time, this can be seen in the picture of the killer, that he had a natural beard, but a trimmed mustache. Though it is no longer trimmed.
Now this being said, the killer had also been diagnosed as having schizophrenia; and he had been tasked while in the army with guarding Muslim prisoners. And he had expressed sympathy to them in messages to his father.
Okay, so what? In this trial in Texas, a judge would likely not allow a question to the prosecutor asking the killer what his religion was. But in this case, if the killer testifies in his own behalf, the judge might allow the question, but only as it goes to the killer’s motive for killing Kyle.
If the killer answered that he is a Muslim, it changes the entire complexion of the trial, other than the question is he mentally competent.
Of course, his attorney should adamantly insist that he not testify. But if he is indeed a Muslim fanatic, he could not resist the opportunity to spout.
All in all, the case presents a lot of opportunity for drama.
I guess it does not mean anything for sure but when I first saw his photo, only a few days ago, something clicked in my mind.
It was just a passing thing and I forgot it immediately.
As soon as I saw this post, it hit me! He has that evil dead eye look I see in Islamist terrorists.
I know, it is not something you can say for sure but?
The murderer and his two victims.
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