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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.
Chris Kyle
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Chris Kyle
Age: 38 †
Born: 1974
Born: April 8
Died: 2013
Died: February 2
Autobiographer
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Navy Sailor
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Odessa
Texas
Christopher Scott Kyle
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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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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.
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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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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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There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.
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None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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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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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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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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It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
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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.
Chris Kyle
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.
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Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.
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I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
Chris Kyle
