Michael Moore is wrong about ‘American Sniper’

As Americans, we are fortunate to have the right to speak our minds. Filmmaker Michael Moore did just that with his attack on the use of military snipers in warfare just before the release of the Oscar-nominated and devastating war/anti-war movie “American Sniper,” directed by Clint Eastwood.

Moore obviously has the same freedom of speech right that all Americans do. Some of what he has publicly stated in the past is opinion, some is fact and some is absolutely ludicrous. In an apparent reference to Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, credited with 160 enemy kills — the most in U.S. history — and the movie “American Sniper,” Moore commented on Twitter that his “uncle was killed by a sniper” and that he was “taught that all snipers were cowards.”

To begin with, the reason Americans have the freedom of speech Moore was exercising is because brave men such as Kyle and other active-duty personnel and military veterans have fought to protect this precious right.

As far as the comment that “snipers are cowards,” that is beyond ludicrous and it is difficult to understand just how anybody could make such a comment.

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