From an Angry Soldier

[nskripchun]

Not the usual kind of thing I'd post about the current war, but if anyone deserves to be heard, it's the soldiers and their families.

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From an Angry Soldier
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.

[Lum]

This is pretty sad. We have an army base where I live. When this travesty of a war started us cabbies were driving a lot of new recruits around. The younger ones seemed so excited by the idea of becoming heroes and it was obvious they believed in what we were doing over there because of what they'd been told. Months later we started seeing many of the same soldiers come back looking utterly traumatized. One of my friends told me a kid started bawling in his cab. He'd just seen too much pointless death over there.

[JjampongMania]

I really LOVE that blog that the dead soldier's wife wrote about the stupidity of the US military being in Iraq. I mean come on GW bushwacker!? This Iraq war is a REPEAT of the Vietnam War. Get our f--king troops out of that shit hole! Seriously! My older brother has been on two tours of Iraq since the war started in March 2003. Although he is not a combat soldier, he has seen many wounded soldiers come to his unit to be treated. My brother is a nurse with the US army. It's so sad when the military physicians have to amputate an arm or a leg of a wounded soldier. Now that poor soldier with no leg or arm can't walk or write or do everyday hobbies he or she used to do prior to the Iraq war.

[cattygurl]

Powerful post, and absolutely she's right. The way veterans are treated in this country is a shame.We send them off to die, then deny them their benefits as hard and long as possible.

The fact that the younger soldiers were excited to go to war says something about the lack of history education in this country.

[Lum]

My older brother has been on two tours of Iraq since the war started in March 2003.

You know I just realized the reason why I think these soldiers are coming back here looking so sullen, even when they're out on the town attempting to drink it all away. It's not so much the war or the death or the pointlessness of it all. I think it's because after going through all of what no human should have to endure in the first place, they come back here knowing in a few weeks they'll have to do it all over again. God, eight years of this shit. Makes me ill.