From an 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-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.

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

Yeah, we know, this situation never happened.....where's that scarcasim icon?

It could be fake, it could be real.

I just received an email from a friend with this letter included. I WAS going to post it, but thought I should see if it had been "done" already?

I haven't seen it refuted.

It's graphic enough, like a lot of wingnut anonymous postings, that I have to take it with a grain of salt. On the other hand, I could see how someone could feel this way.

down and cried. Sure wonder if it's true. I do know there are a few other "unhappy" soldiers writing now and again, but I don't want to forward any information that I know isn't the truth!

We've had ENOUGH of that since 2000!

Thanks for the reply.

I wouldn't want to spam it around unless I was sure of where it came from either.

....because no Marine would call himself/herself a "soldier."

She never referred to herself, personally, as anything but a Marine. I admit that I am skeptical about the prevalence of female Marines, but they tell me it happens. In the more general context, it is common to conflate Marines and soldiers.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1726659&Language=en

US soldier killed in explosion in south Baghdad -- US Army
Military and Secuity 4/21/2007 4:52:00 PM

US soldier killed in explosion in south Baghdad -- US Army BAGHDAD, April 21 (KUNA) -- Two US Marine soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when their patrol was hit with blast of explosives in southern Baghdad on Saturday, a US Army statement said.
Another explosion in Al-Baladiyat Neighborhood in eastern Baghdad injured three US soldiers and set their military jeep afire.
The death toll of the US Army in Iraq for April so far reached 70. (end) mhg.sab KUNA 211652 Apr 07NNNN