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Originally posted by tsurfer2000h
reply to post by Swills
You do know why Kyle claimed he punched Ventura, right? It has nothing to do with Ventura calling himself a SEAL.
No, it has to do with him telling the truth which has been shown he hasn't in the past.
If he is going to lie about his military service what makes you think he wouldn't lie about this?
Ah okay, he did serve in Iraq and was a combat vet. I only recall at the time of the shooting sources claiming he never went overseas, and I do believe they also claimed he was stationed in the US only. I didn't follow up since then. Thanks for the info.
Simple question for you, why did Kyle claim to have knocked out Ventura in that SEAL bar?
I'm a war vet who completely disagrees with our foreign policy, especially the false/lie war that was Iraq, but I will never say my fellow military members deserve to die and I assume Ventura would never say such a thing either.
I could be wrong though. The Tux is obviously rented.
Kyle was a mass murderer, bragged about it, and made money from it.
Originally posted by tsurfer2000h
reply to post by Swills
I'm a war vet who completely disagrees with our foreign policy, especially the false/lie war that was Iraq, but I will never say my fellow military members deserve to die and I assume Ventura would never say such a thing either.
Yet Jesse Ventura has never denied saying those things. His lawsuit comes from the fact he was punched and not that he said those things which caused him to get punched in the first place.
Also it is stated that all proceeds from the book go to the families of the Navy Seals they were mourning so Chris Kyle wasn't doing this to gain personal profits but to help his fellow deceased Seal team members.
So this lawsuit is founded on a fallacy that Kyle was doing this book for personal gains in which it wasn't.
Originally posted by tsurfer2000h
reply to post by Swills
I'm a war vet who completely disagrees with our foreign policy, especially the false/lie war that was Iraq, but I will never say my fellow military members deserve to die and I assume Ventura would never say such a thing either.
Yet Jesse Ventura has never denied saying those things. His lawsuit comes from the fact he was punched and not that he said those things which caused him to get punched in the first place.
Also it is stated that all proceeds from the book go to the families of the Navy Seals they were mourning so Chris Kyle wasn't doing this to gain personal profits but to help his fellow deceased Seal team members.
So this lawsuit is founded on a fallacy that Kyle was doing this book for personal gains in which it wasn't.
Now you're just making things up. Jesse does in fact deny saying not only those things but that he was punched by Kyle, even going as far as saying he's never met Kyle in his life.
Jeremiah Dinnell, an active-duty SEAL, was the exception.
"I heard Ventura say that we shouldn't be over in Iraq, doing what we were doing," he said. "And then he said that the SEALs deserved to lose some guys because of what we were doing.
"That's when Chris punched him. All of us wanted to. Chris was just the first one to pop him."
Interesting twist about the proceeds. I wonder, are there records of where the money went.
Kyle, the son of a church deacon and raised on a ranch, was a committed Christian who never hesitated when a fellow veteran was in need. All the proceeds of his 2012 autobiography American Sniper — which sold 800,000 copies and could have made him a rich man — went to the families of comrades who, as he put it to me when I interviewed him last year, he “could not save”.