Poetic Justice? Former Navy Seal Publicity-Seeking Sniper Chris Kyle Shot Dead

LivelineDipso · 03-02-2013 09:10PM #1

I can't say I am neither surprised or saddened. This guy made an industry of the fact he killed 160 people.

He is typical of the gung-ho, trigger-happy Yank whom Americans adore as a defender of 'Freedum' and then they wonder why their country is essentially a psychiatric outpatient clinc.

Normal veterns tend to not want to talk about their combat experiences. He gloried in it and the attention he sought. His helping PTS troops always seemed like his phony 'good guy' angle. He spent the rest of his time training people to be as psychopathic as he was.

He was a bible nut too. (of course)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/03/sniper-chris-kyle-shot-dead

Former Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle shot dead at Texas gun range

US military's most prolific sniper wrote bestselling memoir on his four tours in Iraq and was known for helping veterans with PTSD

Nodin · 03-02-2013 09:11PM

I didn't think it was possible to squeeze so much hysteria, hand wringing distortion and crap into one relatively brief post. Well done OP - you should patent the process.

Rabidlamb · 03-02-2013 09:15PM

Where's his jesus now, eh, eh . . .

Gatling · 03-02-2013 09:15PM

The legend wasnt psychotic he was just a highly trained highly motivated shooter with his 160 confirmed kills countless lives were saved that deserve's respect

LivelineDipso · 03-02-2013 09:17PM

Gatling wrote: »

The legend wasnt psychotic he was just a highly trained highly motivated shooter with his 160 confirmed kills countless lives were saved that deserve's respect

In an illegal war for oil?

That's basically 160 murders if we are going to be pedantic about it.

davetherave · 03-02-2013 09:17PM

He was doing a job and helping a mate with his ptsd, some cnut just decided to blast him. Yup, exactly the same thing. Good job OP.

Edit:

LivelineDipso wrote: »

In an illegal war for oil?
That's basically 160 murders if we are going to be pedantic about it.

There we go, that's the reasoning explained.

Gatling · 03-02-2013 09:21PM

160 less inflamed jihadis to worry about

donegal_road · 03-02-2013 09:21PM

Gatling wrote: »

The legend wasnt psychotic he was just a highly trained highly motivated shooter with his 160 confirmed kills countless lives were saved that deserve's respect

countless lives would have been saved if the US didn't send their troops to Iraq on the pretence of 'freeing the Iraqi people' in the first place

Witcher · 03-02-2013 09:21PM

LivelineDipso wrote: »

In an illegal war for oil?

That's basically 160 murders if we are going to be pedantic about it.

Soldiers don't decide where they go, they're told where and they go.

Just from reading books etc and reading forums I've noticed that soldiers from WW2 seem to be romanticised and more recent soldiers demonised when they are both doing they same job..killing people abroad because men in an office back home say so.

Cork boy 55 · 03-02-2013 09:23PM

RIP USA fighting man

Thank you for your service

baldbear · 03-02-2013 09:23PM

Its sad the way he died trying to help a friend with ptsd.

darced · 03-02-2013 09:23PM

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Witcher · 03-02-2013 09:24PM

donegal_road wrote: »

countless lives would have been saved if the US didn't send their troops to Iraq on the pretence of 'freeing the Iraqi people' in the first place

If 30 years from now Iraq is a stable nation in the ME, with no tyrant in power and people are free to live as they choose will the war have been worth it?

LivelineDipso · 03-02-2013 09:26PM

baldbear wrote: »

Its sad the way he died trying to help a friend with ptsd.

at a firing range?

That's a bit like a person sufferung from Herpes trying to get cured in a Brotel.

Witcher · 03-02-2013 09:28PM

LivelineDipso wrote: »

at a firing range?

That's a bit like a person sufferung from Herpes trying to get cured in a Brotel.

The man probably found shooting to be therapeutic and had been a hobby before his time in the military and so he associated it with a positive time rather than what he experienced when on his tour of duty.

Curly Judge · 03-02-2013 09:28PM

LivelineDipso wrote: »

In an illegal war for oil?

That's basically 160 murders if we are going to be pedantic about it.

I suppose your car runs on spring water?

Nodin · 03-02-2013 09:28PM

LivelineDipso wrote: »

at a firing range?

That's a bit like a person sufferung from Herpes trying to get cured in a Brotel.

Yet more hand-wringing nonsense. There are people who've fought in various liberation struggles who've done more or less the same thing. You'll find the people who've resisted american aggression spent some time on the firing range too.

LivelineDipso · 03-02-2013 09:30PM

Curly Judge wrote: »

I suppose your car runs on spring water?

ah I see, so murdering a million Iraq people for oil is a noble cause.

No wonder you admired this psychopath.

Pottler · 03-02-2013 09:31PM

I was never that mad about the Kyles. Jeremy has done an awful lot of damage with his sniping as well.

Witcher · 03-02-2013 09:32PM

LivelineDipso wrote: »

ah I see, so murdering a million Iraq people for oil is a noble cause.

No wonder you admired this psychopath.

How many of those dead were killed by their own countrymen blowing themselves to smithereens? Suicide bombers often killed themselves amongst groups of children for simply taking sweets off US/UK troops...if that was the class of person Chris Kyle killed then pity he didn't kill more.

Gatling · 03-02-2013 09:34PM

Blay wrote: »

If 30 years from now Iraq is a stable nation in the ME, with no tyrant in power and people are free to live as they choose will the war have been worth it?

Blay you will probably find in 30 years the same misinformed conspiracy theorist spouting the same ohhhhhh they done it for the oil,
And with WW2 romances that war was about saving the poor Jewish people from the nasty man in Germany (no one knew about the concentration camp till they were found near the end of the war)

The world is a safer place since Saddam done his jig at the end of the a rope

My name is URL · 03-02-2013 09:35PM

If only more people were armed at shooting ranges... this kind of thing would never happen.

Bipolar Joe · 03-02-2013 09:35PM

Blay wrote: »

If 30 years from now Iraq is a stable nation in the ME, with no tyrant in power and people are free to live as they choose will the war have been worth it?

That's a pretty interesting question! I'm not very good at history, and everything I know about Vietnam I learned from Full Metal Jacket and the Rambo movies. I know there are still a lot of people who think that war was needless and shouldn't have happened.

LivelineDipso · 03-02-2013 09:36PM

Blay wrote: »

How many of those dead were killed by their own countrymen blowing themselves to smithereens? Suicide bombers often killed themselves amongst groups of children for simply taking sweets off US/UK troops...if that was the class of person Chris Kyle killed then pity he didn't kill more.

It would be interesting to know how many of these 'kills' were some poor bastard going to work to feed his family.

The full genocidal blood thrist of the "Amercun He-roes for Freedum" in Iraq has yet to come out.

One day it will and we'll see that the US in Iraq were as casually murderous as they were in well, every war they went into.

Pottler · 03-02-2013 09:39PM

My name is URL wrote: »

If only more people were armed at shooting ranges... this kind of thing would never happen.

:D:D knock it off, I've a broken rib here. Even breathing hurts, laughing is a killer alltogether, real Chris Kyle style.

Witcher · 03-02-2013 09:40PM

LivelineDipso wrote: »

One day it will and we'll see that the US in Iraq were as casually murderous as they were in well, every war they went into.

Well people were glad of their 'murderous' ways when they joined the Allied side in 1942 weren't they?

Gatling · 03-02-2013 09:41PM

War is a bloody murderous affair it would be no fun if it wasn't

MadsL · 03-02-2013 09:43PM

OP, I suggest you listen to some music and relax about that psychiatric outpatient clinc.

This will probably do the trick. Try not to twitch as you listen.