Ok, saw it. The book was just ok and it was better than the movie. I dislike it when Hollywood gets ahold of stories like this and turn it into a comedy of tactically unsound errors.
There are at least 3 lies. "the U.S. government sent him into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They perched him atop the Superdome, he said, and it was from there that he picked off 30 looters in the city." "a story about killing a pair of carjackers in Texas and then dialing up the Pentagon for the law enforcement officials who arrived at the scene. That's another story that nobody -- no police, deputy, coroner or witness -- has been able to confirm. " And of course, a jury of his peers decided he completely fabricated the Jesse Ventura punching story and awarded $1.8M in damages against his estate. For me, none of that changes the fact that he volunteered, he trained, he served, he sacrificed. Time to put it all to rest.
I sort of knew about the Jesse Ventura stuff but he is as big an idiot as they make so I never took any of that serious. Ventura should go away. I never knew about any of the other things.
He says some pretty crazy shit. But he's never lied that I am aware of, he served this country honorably, and he did what he felt he had to in order to defend his reputation. Chris Kyle went after Ventura and hurt his reputation within the SEAL community and then tried to profit from it. That was straight up bullshit and Kyle was wrong for it. So no matter what I think of Ventura, that whole episode is on Kyle.
