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    | ‘American Sniper’ Complaints Grow in Hollywood: Should Clint Eastwood Be Celebrating a Killer? (Exclusive) Submitted by: 
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    | In the wake of Oscar nominations, Academy members begin buzzing over recent criticism of the film’s subject, Chris Kyle
 Even as “American Sniper” breaks January box-office records and revels in six Oscar nominations, criticism over the subject of the film, sharpshooter Chris Kyle, is rising and reaching into the Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences, which votes on the Academy Awards.
 Over the weekend, multiple Academy members told TheWrap that they had been passing around a recent article by Dennis Jett in The New Republic that attacks the film for making a hero out of Kyle, who said: “The enemy are savages and despicably evil,” and his “only regret is that I didn’t kill more.”
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    | Well, "killer" is the easiest concept for the "elites" to grasp because the reality is too complex. Snipers are  dedicated to protecting their own. They're also the "surgeon's knife", excising the murderous tissue while leaving healthy alone.  Without their skill and dedication "troops in contact" would have little recourse but to call for supporting fires.  That means collateral damage and non-combatant casualties. 
 These are the hard realities leftists/progressives won't  acknowledge. IOW its not the "body count" snipers achieve, but the numbers of lives their "surgical precision" in removing active threats save !  Having read everything Chris Kyle wrote, I've come to realize this was his personal "great unknown".
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