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Every movie rewrites history. What American Sniper did is much, much worse.
Vox ^ | 1/22 | Amanda Taub

Posted on 01/22/2015 9:05:54 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

merican Sniper has a problem. It's a movie about a black-and-white distinction between good and evil, but it is set almost entirely in the Iraq War, which can only be honestly portrayed in shades of gray.

Faced with a choice between altering its narrative to account for that gray versus altering the facts of history, the film chose the latter. It adopted an "honesty shmonesty" approach to the war: in its retelling, Iraq was a fight of Good Americans against Bad Terrorists, led by Chris Kyle, the Good-est American of them all.

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To: TangledUpInBlue

In the future, please provide a “Barf Alert” when posting articles such as this.


41 posted on 01/22/2015 9:32:51 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: sauropod

Sarin and mustard gas.
I think it was sulphur mustard specifically.
It was in the Deulfer report.
Which curiously has been scrubbed from the official website.


42 posted on 01/22/2015 9:33:30 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: MtnMan101

Amanda nor VOX are capable of distinguishing reality from their Marxist fantasy. They are to be mocked for their abject stupidity.


43 posted on 01/22/2015 9:33:50 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: catnipman

I think her real objection is that the movie was successful.

If American Sniper had failed every single commentator from her side would be using it as a teaching point against the war.

She can’t sell her beliefs about Iraq, especially to those who served over there.

Any group of people who will wrap ten and 15 year old girls in explosives and send them into crowds, do not deserve one second of understanding from me. A mother who gives her little boy a grenade to run into a group of soldiers deserves exactly what she gets.


44 posted on 01/22/2015 9:35:02 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Cicero

Amanda’s self description forgot to add unicorns, rainbows and butterflys


45 posted on 01/22/2015 9:38:28 AM PST by Tudorfly
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To: Darksheare

Think I might have saved that somewhere...


46 posted on 01/22/2015 9:39:13 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: nikos1121

I read her article. It is pretty clear that she saw the movie. But there is a difference between seeing something that confirms your biases and seeing something that makes you think and questions your preconceptions.


47 posted on 01/22/2015 9:40:20 AM PST by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: sauropod

I saved it somewhere too.
But it is curious that it has been scrubbed.


48 posted on 01/22/2015 9:41:29 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Bayotch.


49 posted on 01/22/2015 9:44:18 AM PST by Gargantua ("...Fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The American movie-going public is laughing at all of the apoplectic Left's screeds, and making American Sniper one of the most successful films in history.

Suck it, h8rs.

50 posted on 01/22/2015 9:44:58 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Reminds me of the old proverb:

If you want to anger a conservative, lie to them; but if you want to anger a liberal then tell them the truth.

So there you can see why this film angered the lib: AMERICAN SNIPER TOLD THE TRUTH.


51 posted on 01/22/2015 9:46:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Dear Ms. Taub,

Until you have been under fire with the troops, STFU!


52 posted on 01/22/2015 9:47:39 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That article could just as easily been entitled, “We can’t make moral distinctios, so nobody else should, either.”


53 posted on 01/22/2015 9:47:59 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: PapaNew
The Iraq War was flawed from the beginning and ended with the flawed and soon-forgotten explanation called “The Bush Doctrine” that tries, but fails, to justify an unprovoked invasion of another country “to make them be democratic too.”

Actually the Bush Doctrine justifies invasion of foreign countries in order to "force them to eat their peas."

Actually, I totally made that up, that's not what it was at all. And neither was what you said.

54 posted on 01/22/2015 9:50:46 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: PapaNew

“The Iraq War was flawed from the beginning and ended with the flawed and soon-forgotten explanation called “The Bush Doctrine” that tries, but fails, to justify an unprovoked invasion of another country “to make them be democratic too.” Invading other countries to make them be like us is not America’s purpose in this world....”

I’m not gonna go into the myriad reasons that we invaded Iraq. I will say that with Saddam deposed, what kind of government would you prefer to see in Iraq. Monarchy? Communist? Fascist? What?


55 posted on 01/22/2015 9:53:16 AM PST by saleman (?)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

“But pretending that heroic sheepdog warriors never accidentally kill civilians is a dangerous lie about the true nature of combat. “

But O’bummer killing innocent men, women and children with drones on a regular basis is okay - gotcha

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=obama+drones+kill+civilians


56 posted on 01/22/2015 9:54:19 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: Iron Munro

She’s actually kind of cute,too bad she’s mentally defective.


57 posted on 01/22/2015 9:54:42 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: chesley
Cannot agree.

In terms of politics the world is a pretty simple place. You've got folks who want to guide their own lives and take responsibility for same, who grant others the same, whose focus is self.

Then you've got others whose main focus is others, Who seek to enslave others, whose sense of entitlement blinds them to the evil they create.

Everything else is a matter of degree.

In that this wench and I think alike...my focus is what I think about the movie.

Her focus is also what I think about the movie.

58 posted on 01/22/2015 10:01:26 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: gogeo

...and those who speak of shades of gray struggle to make a point without revealing too much.


59 posted on 01/22/2015 10:04:03 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: ansel12

I don’t know the specific make/model of scope he’s using,but the high end Leupold scopes are 1500-2000 and up.I find that a 600 dollar Leatherwood gets the job done just fine.


60 posted on 01/22/2015 10:09:23 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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