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.
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice (2012). “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History”, p.8, Harper Collins
