I 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.
CHRIS KYLEIn 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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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’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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I did want to be the top sniper.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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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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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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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.
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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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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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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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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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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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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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