Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
CHRIS KYLEI don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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What wounded veteran’s don’t need is sympathy. They need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
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There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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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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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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I’m just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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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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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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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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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate.
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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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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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