Let's treat Kyle's claim that he killed looters as genuine

[dissentient]

in New Orleans. Wouldn't that make him a murderer who killed U.S. citizens without a trial? And how is that "heroic"? By that measure, the beltway sniper killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were heroic too. And one got life in prison, the other, the death penalty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

[glasshouses]

1. .

[NuclearDem]

2. Why are we treating it as genuine?

And not just a drunken bar story?

[LonePirate]

7. Why is the American public enamored with someone who would make such a claim?

There's a difference between a bar story and the reprehensible Katrina story he told.

[NuclearDem]

11. You'll get no argument from me that it's reprehensible.

It's also likely not true.

[Logical]

12. Better question, why are you treating it as a drunken bar story?? Let me explain....

maybe it proves the guy was a liar and made up lots of shit. Get it now?

[NuclearDem]

13. When did I say anything otherwise?

The man was a liar, which makes me not want to take the story seriously.

[Beaverhausen]

3. There's no way it's true

Do you think no one would have noticed all the dead bodies with bullet wounds in their heads?

[dissentient]

5. If you do a search on the internet there are some things that back up the story

including dead bodies that were found with bullet holes in them in the after math of the clean up. I am not going to link to them here, but they are out there.

[NuclearDem]

9. Bodies with bullet holes? MUST have been a sniper.

And if it's somewhere on the internet, it must be true!

[NYC_SKP]

4. Well, he's dead. And, he's a lying sack of shit.

The 'American Sniper's' preposterous post-Katrina New Orleans story: Jarvis DeBerry



Chris Kyle, the now-deceased Navy SEAL who is celebrated in Clint Eastwood's movie "American Sniper" was a proved liar. Jesse Ventura, the former military man, wrestler and governor of Minnesota, sued Kyle before he died, claiming that he defamed Ventura in his memoir, "American Sniper." Kyle claims to have punched out Ventura in a bar after Ventura bad-mouthed the troops who'd been sent to Iraq. Kyle was killed before the trial, but a jury determined that none of what he had written about Ventura was true and awarded Ventura $1.8 million.

Because he's a proved liar, we should be awfully skeptical about Kyle's claim that the U.S. government sent him into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They perched him atop the Superdome, he said, and it was from there that he picked off 30 looters in the city.
Senate Louisiana Katrina In this Aug. 30, 2005 file photo, the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is seen in this aerial view. The stadium, which was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, sits surrounded by floodwaters.AP Photo / David J. Phillip

A June 2014 Washington Post report about Kyle's "unverifiable legacy" doesn't outright call the celebrated sniper a liar, but it nudges the reader toward that conclusion. After including a quote from one of Kyle's officers who said, "I never heard that story," the Washington Post writes, "Does that mean it didn't happen? Who knows. It's certainly possible that Kyle... killed 30 armed assailants in New Orleans to protect its residents in Katrina's aftermath. But it's also possible Kyle couldn't let go of his own legend, and, in a haze of post-traumatic stress, let his tales veer into untruth."

At the website mpmacting.com, writer Michael McAffrey is far less kind. He excoriates Kyle and reporters who either have failed to question Kyle's bogus stories or, worse, criticized Ventura for suing Kyle for lying about him.

http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/the_american_snipers_preposter.html

[arcane1]

6. They were presumably brown people he supposedly killed.

So he'll still be a "hero" to some.

[AgingAmerican]

8. As if nobody would notice two snipers on the roof of the Superdome shooting up the town...

I believe this murderous piece of shit about the same as I believe that Santa will bring me a new Bentley next 4th of July.

[aikoaiko]

10. A lot of Americans will embrace a bad man, if he protects them from worse.