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Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock was America's finest sniper. (This is the guy who put a round down the barrel of another sniper's scope, and also the guy who made a 2500-yard shot with a .50-caliber machine gun firing standard ammunition.) Don't believe raw numbers: when Gunny Hathcock was active, a kill wasn't official unless it was observed by a commissioned officer. He estimates he killed at least 300 enemy soldiers.
Chris Kyle you already know.
In Kyle's book, he claims to have enjoyed killing people.
Gunny Hathcock said he never enjoyed killing people; it was a job he did to protect his fellow Marines. MOST combat arms troops feel the same way.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)That's what I figured. It's one thing to fight, it's another to get some kind of kick out of it.
glasshouses
(484 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)I was pointing out the difference between Hathcock and Kyle: one at least claimed killing wasn't his favorite thing, the other who apparently relished blowing people's shit away.
Also remember he claimed to shoot people off the roof of the Superdome: go to Google Maps and look at the area around the Superdome in Satellite View. If he really was going to shoot looters he would go to where looters were, and there aren't any good sight lines between the Superdome and anything in NOLA that's worth stealing.
glasshouses
(484 posts)and he shot them dead at a gas station in Texas .
Also as far as I know there is no evidence that I have read where he committed any war crime in Iraq either.
When he dropped a terrorist who was planting IED's or planning an ambush on our troops.
I really don't care that he felt good about killing them . As long as he never crossed that line of
committing a war crime I'm good with what he did in protecting our troops.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)that IN ITSELF was a war crime
former9thward
(32,077 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)but posing him as a hero is pretty sickening considering we INVADED FOR NO REASON
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)unless you're suggesting he wasn't capable of rational decision making?
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)"terrorists" the same way Washington's soldiers in 1776 were "terrorrists."
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)Couldn't agree more.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)applaud that because he was on our side. Just like Cheney's torturers. Heroes and patriots. They are all war criminals and should be punished.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)...that if someone with a computer hooked to the internets were to go through it page by page, the number of bullshit statements would exceed the number of true ones.
jen1980
(77 posts)Is the way of their kind.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Chris Kyle is scum.
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marked50
(1,368 posts)delta17
(283 posts)They both killed a lot of people in an immoral war. Hathcock is just a lot more humble.