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Did Chris Kyle deck Jesse Ventura at McP's in Coronado?
What a slimy guy this Bill Burbank is. Everything his says is shady without fact but just conjecture meant to see like Chris Kyle was telling the truth without actually saying that he did. Him comparing Ventura's service with Kyle's shows what a snake he is. It's completely irrelevant to whether or not they actually got in a fight, which is the root of the dispute. Also it shows a lot of disrespect to any of our soldiers that served their duty but wasn't assign to combat. Jesse served six years and it wasn't up to him if he faced combat or not, that's up to his superiors. That seems to be Kyle's whole case, a lot of conjecture and no real facts. Which is sad because it means Kyle made up the story when he didn't need to. You have to wonder why Kyle just didn't come clean then. Probably because he had told so many of his buddies through the years that he had punched out Ventura and it was already part of his "legend" that if he came clean, he would be admitting to lying the whole time. Truth is Kyle was decorated enough and had done so many great things for our country that he didn't need to make up these kinds of stories, but for whatever reason, he felt he needed to live up to some type of superhero image which birthed the other fibs in his life like the killing of two Mexican car-jackers or shooting 30 American looters during Hurricane Katrina. Probably he was also aware of all the negative fall-out from James Frey admitting on Oprah that he had made up certain stuff in his book, "A Million Little Pieces". That pretty much destroyed Frey's career, his book sales plummeted and there was even a civil action lawsuit against him on behalf of all those that bought his book. Kyle definitely didn't want to have to deal with that, and in fact, offered Ventura money to drop the case. Kyle just didn't want to admit that he had lied and have to deal with the consequences. In the end, it's a small fib that came with huge consequences. Kyle probably didn't think ahead of time the kind of huge backlash that his made-up story would bring to Ventura, with Jesse feeling he needed to defend his reputation at all costs. Of course no one knew Kyle would be murdered in a year too. So it was a little snowball that grew much bigger than he could have possibly imagined. In the end, no one won from this. Ventura was vindicated about the fight, but his reputation took an even worse hit from having to pursue his case against Kyle's widow. Kyle lost his life. Had nothing to do with the case, but the tragedy made this whole issue seem minuscule compared to him losing his life and I'm sure Ventura didn't want to have to go to court with Kyle's wife when he first decided to defend himself. Still, I think Ventura had every right to clear his name. He wasn't the one that started this and when the word got out that he supposedly bad-mouth our soldiers and said the Seals "deserved a few", his reputation was completely ruined for something he never said.— October 30, 2014 2:39 a.m.