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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The movie showed why Kyle had PTSD, from watching his brothers in arms killed, or from watching the "savages" like The Butcher use torture on Iraqi kids. He didn't have PTSD from killing the bad guys. [/quote]

Unfortunately the Butcher is not actually in his memoir.  It appears to have been a plot device.  That's what you get trying to reconstruct historical events from a Hollywood action film.[/quote]

Is the movie a documentary or a biography?  Does it claim to be? No it isn't and it doesn't.  But if you don't think kids and women were used to kill others and be killed themselves, you are in denial.  [/quote]

That may be, but the pp said this is how he got PTSD.  Do we just get to make up facts now?[/quote]

Kyle said that himself in interviews. PP did not make it up. Go on YouTube and watch him say it. Doesn't have to be the Butcher, who was symbolic for the terrorists who WERE torturing [/quote]

I can't find that, so maybe you can post it.

In general, I think it odd that conservatives are deriving so much "truth" from the same "Hollyweird" that they disparage.  To me, you are suckers because you can't separate entertainment from history.[/quote]

Start with O'Relly's interview. Move from there

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Ok so I did, and surprise surprise it does not support your statement.

[quote]O'REILLY: You don't have posttraumatic stress or anything like that that you killed so many human beings? That doesn't come back at you?

KYLE: None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

O'REILLY: It's very fascinating. And that's why I want people to read your book, because I think if they do, if they read your book, Chief, "American Sniper," they'll understand what war is really about. 'Cause I think too many of us don't understand what war is really about.

KYLE: I mean, war is hell. It's definitely -- Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good. It's -- war sucks.

O'REILLY: But they need guys like to you win.

KYLE: Definitely, you have to get in the mentality and you have to not think of them as a human being. You have to portray them as -- that's why I put savages.

O'REILLY: Savages.

KYLE: Definitely.

O'REILLY: Right. All right, chief. Thanks very much. We appreciate you coming on in.

KYLE: Thank you for having me.

(END VIDEOTAPE)
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The only thing he said about his PTSD is that it did not come from guilt over killing bad guys.  Clearly he did not want to say what caused his ptsd.

Also he pointed out the problem of believing a Hollywood account of war, as you can see above.  Which explains why the movie does not line up with his book.  [/quote]

Keep looking. He very soecifically said it.
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