From an Angry Soldier
Reposted in its entirety from Craigslist. Originally found at Land-O-Links.
Date: 2007-04-10, 1:00PM PDT
I'm having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I'm going to write this while I'm pissed off enough to do it right.
I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you're all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like five year old about whether you're right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you've been there, you don't know a god damn thing about it. It you haven't been shot at in that fucking hell hole, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are "Supporting our Troops" and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit? I'll tell you why. I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box.
You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.
And you know what the most fucked up thing about this Iraq shit is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We fucked up their lives even worse than they already were and they're pissed off. We didn't help them and we're not helping them now. That's what our soldiers are dying for.
Oh while I'm good and worked up, the government doesn't even have the decency to help out the soldiers whos lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans' hospitals were so fucked up, you are a god-damn retard. They don't care about us. We're disposable. We're numbers on a page and they'd rather forget we exist so they don't have to be reminded about the families and lives they ruined while they're sipping their cocktails at another fund raiser dinner. If they were really concerned about supporting the troops, they'd bring them home so their families wouldn't have to cry at a graveside and explain to their children why mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Because you can't explain it. We're not fighting for our country, we're not fighting for the good of Iraq's people, we're fighting for Bush's personal agenda. Patriotism my ass. You know what? My dad served in Vietnam and NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
So I'm pissed. I'm beyond pissed. And I'm going to go to my husband funeral and recieve that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he's older. But I'm not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidty of the American government. I'm going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that's all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn't care about him at all.
Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.
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by MG at 12:19 AM
11 Comments:
beautiful. at first I thought this was a pro-war jarhead.
Thanks for posting this. Those are words from someone who is living the hell of Bush's war, and will the rest of her life.
Anyone could have written that. Good job Moxie Grrrrrrl, you’re about as helpful as Fox News.
Well, Anonymous, if you're looking for a helpful site maybe you've been misdirected:
I get to say whatever comes to mind and it doesn't matter how much someone is offended, or how much they disagree and want to debate me on it.
-Moxie Grrrl
I can't speak for anybody else, but I welcome you to register a username and come to discuss important -- or even relevant -- issues. Otherwise, my days would be made a little brighter if you would just keep your helpful comments to yourself.
You're an idiot captain cool. Moxie didn't say anything. she just reposted something anyone could have written to make a point that has already been made so many times. How about trying to do something other than sitting in your moms basemnet writting on a computer all day MR COOL. Fag!
Again, Anonymous, you are more than welcome to register a username and join in the conversation, however I will not tolerate unwarranted personal attacks on myself.
I value your opinion and hope to hear more of it on issues pertinent the original post by MG. The comment that anyone could have written that post does not really add much to the discussion. And yes, the point has been made so many times, but it is rare these days for us to hear an actual, unaltered point of view of a soldier who has fought in Iraq. Maybe if the media paid more attention to the opinions of those fighting this war, people would have a clearer view of the damage this war is causing.
Anonymous people amuse me :)
Say something else!
Something else!
Moxie -
Posting aside, it's good to be reading you more often!
This Wednesday at 9pm EST until 10:30pm, PBS will air an episode of Bill Moyer's Journal entitled "Buying The War" - if you watch Lost, they will be repeating the episode on 4/28 at 1:30pm and 5/1 at 3:30am.
Worth mentioning agin.
You two people can duke it out behind the barn but I had a hard time reading the posting.
I know that when we leave thousands and thousands will die and Iraq will be open to attack from it's neighboring countries but just the fact that it's come out that the war was politically decided even before Bush took office makes me want our people home. . .now!
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