The post below from "Angry Soldier" originally appeared on Craigslist. It has since been flagged -- unjustly -- for removal. Yes, it uses an abundance of profane language. But the anger and truth behind those profanities justifies them. The post, in this blogger's opinion should not have been removed -- profane or not.
If you are sensitive or offended by profane language, stop reading here. (I have semi-edited out the profanities, but not entirely.)
As for the rest of you, this is an incredibly powerful statement which, as my friend Liz wrote, "deserves to be read far and wide." (Thanks, Liz, for passing this on.)
Without further ado, here is the post from "Angry Soldier:"
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-f__king-lutely sick to death of it. What the f__k do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever g_d damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you're all such f__king 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 g_d damn thing about it. It you haven't been shot at in that f__king hell hole, SHUT THE F__K 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 sh_t? 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 f__king 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 f__kers and that g_d-damn lying sack of sh_t 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 f__ked up thing about this Iraq sh_t is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We f__ked 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 whose lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans' hospitals were so f__ked up, you are a g_d-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's 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.
F__k you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the g_d damn mother f__kers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.
4 comments:
Amen to her.
The orginal Angry Soldier apears to be untrue. Search http://icasualties.org/oif/ using the dates 23 march through April 14th. Only 3 Marines were killed during that time. Using Google search news stories relating to their names. You will find that:
One Marine was unmarried
One Marine already had his funeral prior to the orginal post. The orginal poster said the funeral still hadnt happened.
The third marine died during the first month of his tour, the orginal poster claimed her husband died after he was extended, his eight month
interestingly, this exact same 'debunking' comment has been left on many of the blogs that have posted this letter.
truth, or damage control?
My gut reaction to the first "anonymous" comment was exactly that of the second "anonymous" comment: damage control.
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