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.
It’s. A. Beard.
So?
It’s a muzzie beard - the kind I see all over Manhattan on our streets. Read the other indicators and educate yourself.
I have better “Islamic hair” than he does ... and I am definitely an Evangelical Christian. In fact, there are Muslims who are jealous of me ... LOL ...
Facial hair aside you don’t get PTSD from being on base your whole tour and never being put under the stress of combat. That is just not a likely scenario.
So now we are all supposed to believe that this guy Routh was sitting out at the gun range on a nice sunny day with Chris Kyle and his friend and all of a sudden he has an episode where he remembers the slushy machine on base failing to drop a cup and he goes nuts and shoots two people who are not threatening him in any way. I don’t think so.
This whole thing has always been weird. Never any details that I have heard or read about have been released about the circumstances of the shooting. There is a lot to question about this.
So do I.....the article is convincing.
I hope the truth comes out.......but for Chris Kyle to make it through 4 deployments......and come home to be murdered......
....there is so much more to this story.
I hadn’t heard that Routh didn’t do combat......always assumed he had.
It’s a huge stretch, and some of Walid Shoebat’s stuff has been, shall we say, exaggerated.
“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.”
Everybody that goes into the military gets a psyche test. They don’t take Schizo’s. So that cannot possibly be true.
What I would like to hear is some firsthand recollections by guys who served with Routh on a daily basis.
““Islamic hair”??????”
Yea wondering the same thing too. Does that grow it’s own lice?
Balad may have been a nice place considering the alternatives, but it did receive mortar fire regularly. They didn’t call it “mortaritaville” for nothing.
Perhaps my eyes are bad, but I see a mustache. Matter of fact, his beard is similar to mine after about a month of growth.
Talk about grasping at straws.
So anyone with a beard is a Muslim? that’s f’n stupid
a beard does not a goathumper make...
You’re stupid and obnoxious.
“Maybe it’s Duck Dynasty facial hair.”
If you follow along with the writer’s theory, the Duck Dynasty men are Secret Muslims.
Here is the whole equation from this article:
Routh’s weird beard + no direct combat to cause PTSD + guarding muslim prisoners for two years + expressing sympathy for the muslim prisoners in phone calls to Routh’s father + shooting two men who killed lots of muslims = Routh just may be a jihadi sympathizer &/or muslim convert (doesn’t matter which)
This can only mean that Abe Lincoln was a Muslim.
He was diagnosed after he got out of the military, and institutionalized twice.
“Routh, a member of the Marines Corps Reserve, was first taken to a mental hospital on Sept. 2 after he threatened to kill his family and himself, according to police records in Lancaster, where Routh lives. Dallas police records show Routh was taken back to the same mental hospital in mid-January after a woman called police and said she feared for Routh’s safety.”
“A 911 recording and documents released Tuesday reveal more about the possible state of mind of the Iraq War veteran charged with gunning down a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend at a Texas shooting range.
“Eddie Ray Routh told his sister and brother-in-law that he and the two men “were out shooting target practice and he couldn’t trust them so he killed them before they could kill him,” according to a Lancaster police search warrant affidavit.
“Shortly after the shootings, Routh’s sister told a 911 operator that her brother had come to her house and confessed to killing two people and was “psychotic,” according to a recording of the frantic call to Midlothian police.”
“Laura Blevins told police her brother seemed “out of his mind saying people were sucking his soul and that he could smell the pigs. He said he was going to get their souls before they took his,” according to the affidavit.”
Yup, that sums it up LOL
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