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141 " 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. Maybe the reason is that the writing on the barrels showed that the chemicals came from France and Germany, our supposed Western allies. The thing I always wonder about is how much Saddam was able to hide before we actually invaded. We’d given so much warning before we came in, that he surely had time to move and bury tons of material. Where it went, where it will turn up, what it will poison—I think those are pretty good questions that have never been answered. "
― Chris Kyle , American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
142 " My country sent me out there so that bullshit wouldn’t make its way back to our shores. "
143 " I don’t worry about what other people think of me. It’s one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn’t give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It’s one of the qualities that has kept me most sane. "
144 " In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. "
145 " As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. "
146 " It’s true that it can be difficult to sort out civilians from insurgents in certain situations, but here the bad guys made it easy for us. "
147 " SAY I PREFERRED FREEFALL TO STATIC JUMPING. I’M not saying I enjoyed it, just that I liked it a lot better. Kind of like picking the firing squad over being hanged. "
148 " plastic bottle of water. One of the Marines pulled his ruck over and used it as a pillow, catching some sleep. Another went downstairs, to the store on the first story of the building. It was a smoke shop; he returned with cartons of flavored cigarettes. He lit a few, and a cherry scent mingled with the heavy stench that always hung over Iraq, a smell of sewage and sweat and death. "
149 " My guys were going back to war and I was flying home. That sucked. I felt like I was letting them down, shirking my duty. It was a conflict—family and country, family and brothers in arms—that I never really resolved. "
150 " A él no le importaba en absoluto lo que pensaran los demás. Él era quien era. Esa "
151 " I asked people for prayer, alluded to danger, and gave no further details other than to ask them to trust me. I knew it would be a tough pill to swallow for those few I was asking. But I felt strongly that people needed to pray—and at the same time that I had to adhere to my husband’s desires about what was to be shared. I know it wasn’t popular, but I felt the need for prayer overrode my need for popularity. "
152 " The worst thing that you could ever do for that war was having all these media people embedded in the units. Most Americans can’t take the reality of war, and the reports they sent back didn’t help us at all. "
153 " Si tuviera que ordenar mis prioridades, serían: Dios, mi país y mi familia. Podr "
154 " «No me importa cuánto dinero ganes», solía decirme mi papá. «No vale la pena si no eres feliz». "
155 " I was thirty. An old man in Fallujah. "
156 " what weapons have we not used to kill them? No pistol kill yet? You have to get at least one. "
157 " (For you Yankees: a deer lease is a property where the owner rents or leases hunting rights out for a certain amount of time; you pay your money and you get the right to go out and hunt. Y’all probably have different arrangements where you live, but this one is pretty common down here.) "
158 " You take your superhero cape off every time you come home from deployment, "
159 " I SAID IT BEFORE AND I’LL KEEP SAYING IT: I’M NOT THE BEST shot in the world. There were plenty of guys better than me, even in that class. I only graduated about middle of the pack. "
160 " have had, I have no idea. We certainly could "