Ventura the Hero - NOT!!!!

"AmericanSniper" is tops at the box office but don't expect to see former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura lining up at a theater for it.  Ventura, a former Navy SEAL, won $1.8 million in a defamation lawsuit last year against the estate of the late Chris Kyle, the SEAL protagonist of the movie, which has sparked debate over whether snipers should be considered heroes.  Ventura said Wednesday he won't see the film partly because Kyle is no hero to him.

It is a movie, not a documentary so everyone lighten up.  If you don't want to see it, then don't.

It is based on an actual story, but as all movies of this like they do not claim to be factual and irrefutable.  Poetic license as usual.  I don't really think anyone stood on the bow of the Titanic or you can get 20 shots out of a revolver like the westerns.  It was made to make money and it is apparently doing that.

I am more inclined to believe Kyle than Ventura.  Kyle is not the experienced liar that Ventura is. After careers as a professional wrestler and a politician, Ventura has lying perfected as an art form.  The "honorable" thing for Ventura to have done, after Kyle was killed, would have been to have accepted the fact that his lawsuit against Kyle's wife and children was dishonorable in and of itself, drop the whole matter and asked her what she needed from him to help look out for the kids.