I thought that I would post this rant that was posted on Graigslist

[Ecumenist]

by a recently returned soldier. It tears out the heart and mad me so much more angry than I thought I could be prior to reading it... My God, this is a female vet who got out after getting pregnant and found out that her husband was killed... HORRIBLE!!


link: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/309485032.html




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.

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[freeplessinseattle]

1. My mom, a diehard Repub, sent this to me recently

with a note that she received it from my grandfather, of all people, who is a lifelong Repub, former Hitler youth (seriously) and had told me if he could have (he still has German citizenship) voted for W in 2000 he would have but not in 2004, bc of the Iraq war.

[Alamom]

2. Oh my, So very sad and we know it's real. My first thoughts are for this

woman and then, how many other stories does this country need to hear.

This story and many others needs to be tattooed on B*ush's forehead.

May she and her baby be blessed with love, family and friends as she tries to build a life after this incredible ansd senseless loss.


Thank you for posting, Ecumenist. It should be sent to everyone.....

[unlawflcombatnt]

3. Thanks for posting this

She's absolutely right on every point.

[tblue37]

4. The most telling thing about the idiots who support BushCo and the

war is that when faced with an actual vet who served in the war and who criticizes it because of actual knowledge and experience, these "Support the Troops" types will immediately attack the vet in the most outrageous ways, calling them traitors and unamerican.

[Cults4Bush]

5. How can anyone read that and not do everything to bring them home

right fucking now.

Repugs not voteing for withdraw I understand theyre fucking heartless twerps. When Dems dont vote to bring them home immediately on every bill resolution whatever the fuck... Im sorry I consider them traitors, traitors to the cause of peace and justice and traitors to this brave woman and her family.

You can take your big ass tent and shove it up your asses if you think its all right to keep those soldiers over there to save face, because that is all we are doing now (oh I mean besides raping that poor country some more for the oil and contracts).

You go on and triangulate that!

Withdraw NOW!

[file83]

6. This was posted before. It's a good rant, for sure.