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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Orrex
(63,219 posts)55. 225? Bah! A mere pittance.
How about 309? (Including 36 snipers. Yikes!)
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Long range killing is what America does. "American Diaper" would be more fit.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#1
You know what we would call it if it were anyone but our government doing this?
Man from Pickens
Jan 2015
#3
And their skin color and "heathen" religion. Why God gave "them" all that oil is puzzling.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#6
Lotsa luck, dealing with the widespread sniper worship that's overtaken this country.
Paladin
Jan 2015
#4
Well, seems fitting. Hey, I realize I'm probably gonna be flamed into a crisp for saying this
calimary
Jan 2015
#49
Thanks! There are women I know who openly admit they love football because of the many
calimary
Jan 2015
#103
And yet I've never fucked my way into believing that snipers are demigods. (nt)
Paladin
Jan 2015
#110
Here's a real hero (killed 225 German soldiers, including 11 German snipers, during
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#7
Well Zaytsev's tally came during only the Battle of Stalingrad (about 6 months), so this may
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#56
Moore's assessment is simplistic and idiotic, it's war, not high school, there is no playing "fair"
Lurks Often
Jan 2015
#71
Sounds like blaspheme. But I don't believe in the Christian concept of god so
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#98
They try to make him likeable by showing he didn't want to shoot a 8 year old boy.
Kablooie
Jan 2015
#8
The kid probably either didn't exist or didn't have a bomb. Kyle was a proven liar who claimed a
Chakab
Jan 2015
#73
I hate to say it, because I voted for him... but it also reminds me of this:
paulbibeau
Jan 2015
#11
Before Fallujah the army ordered an evacuation then went in figuring anyone left was the enemy....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jan 2015
#33
Point of inquiry: was this Fallujah in April 2004 (after the deaths of the 4
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#57
Chris Kyle was a braggart serial killer who figured out how to get away with it.
hunter
Jan 2015
#29
This movie title is plastered above every feature in today's movie section...
MrMickeysMom
Jan 2015
#19
US desperation for hero's. The struggle to keep from focusing on all the bad the US is and does.
L0oniX
Jan 2015
#23
He received an Academy Award nomination so I doubt that he is regretting the movie
yeoman6987
Jan 2015
#84
I'm sorry your husband had to see this bullshit constantly pumped out over the
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#61
In a just war, like WWII, I don't care if a sniper kills 1 or 1,000 of the enemy. It's his/her job.
Flatulo
Jan 2015
#47
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Einstein
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2015
#53
We killed 100s of thousands for no reason. None at all. Zero. Bush, Rice, Cheney should be in prison
whereisjustice
Jan 2015
#94
I'm a vet and I have had the same thoughts about snipers even when I was in the service....
marble falls
Jan 2015
#104