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Jan 20, 2015

'American Sniper' Is Dangerous Propaganda That Sanitizes a Mass Killer & Rewrites the Iraq War

By Rania Khalek / storify.com
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'American Sniper' Is Dangerous Propaganda That Sanitizes a Mass Killer & Rewrites the Iraq War

While the glorification of American psycho sniper Chris Kyle on the big screen is atrocious, the movie's rewriting of the US destruction of Iraq and racist portrayal of Arabs is worse and far more dangerous.

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