But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
CHRIS KYLEDecades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I’ve done. I find it strange, but I also feel it’s my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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