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Posted by miksah2001 Promoted 460 days 21 hours ago 4562 views

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Stumble it!

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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TheDarkDevice, on 12/2/2008 10:01:16 AM
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SHOUTED!

Why are we STILL FUCKING THERE!?!

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bulshoy, on 12/2/2008 12:38:53 PM
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I don't want to be "that guy," but she kinda DID join the military, and her husband did too. Did she not think she'd ever be deployed? Did she not think that there was a chance that one of them would be killed in combat?

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TheDarkDevice, on 12/2/2008 1:27:21 PM
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bulshoy wrote:
I don't want to be "that guy," but she kinda DID join the military, and her husband did too. Did she not think she'd ever be deployed? Did she not think that there was a chance that one of them would be killed in combat?

I don't think that this is the problem bulshoy. The problem is they enlisted to go to a war that perhaps they once thought was valid but upon experiencing it first hand, discovered that it is little more than a little boys ploy for daddy's love and admiration.

"You made my pappy look dumb, and you're darned tootin' I ain't gonna let that happen. I'll git you!!!11!"

In case you (and not specifically you bulshoy) need the hint, I mean Bush and Daddy Bush.

If I discovered tommorrow that marijuana was made from... oh... living humans, as much as I love it I'd have no choice but to rebel against it.

Just like we have the right to an opinion, we have the right to change it.

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Barcadian, on 12/2/2008 3:27:17 PM
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I have to agree with Bulshoy. This is a really sad story and I'm sorry that her baby will never meet his or her daddy, but daddy was a soldier and soldiers die.

The loss of a loved one leaves people looking for answers and in such a severe case of grief it's not uncommon to look for someone or something to blame. I can't help but wonder if her view would have been different had both of them made it out of their tours alive.

Cheers.

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micmac988, on 12/2/2008 4:26:26 PM
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This is sort of incidental to something that happened to my wife recently.

My wife works at a Boston VA as a CNA. One of her friends/co-workers was deployed about 2-3 weeks ago, her husbands been there for the better part of the year.

My wife is a civilian, she can't be deployed. At best they could ask her to volunteer. Her friend however, enlisted to get medical training and because of that she was deployed.

Granted she's med, but she's still in the thick of shit from the emails my wife gets from her and what she's told me from them. To top it off, she's 4 months pregnant (I'm assuming it was during her husbands leave) and they still shipped her out.

About the war itself, I'm friendly with a few vets from my wife's work. Most of them are great guys, anywhere from 20-35 years old. Most of them say that we are making a difference for the better. Hospitals, schools, water treatment plants, power plants, and agricultural facilities to name a few.

The ones that don't want us there are the men who think women are goods and insurgents from neighboring countries.

But this woman is correct. Her husband IS a hero. He's a hero for doing what too many of us can't or won't do, put their lives on the line for a cause greater than ourselves.

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miksah2001, on 12/2/2008 4:34:12 PM
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micmac988 wrote:
He's a hero for doing what too many of us can't or won't do, put their lives on the line for <i>a cause greater than ourselves</i>.

Halliburton's quarterly profits?

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micmac988, on 12/2/2008 8:31:41 PM
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If that's what you think.

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waffleman, on 12/2/2008 8:37:32 PM
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miksah2001 wrote:

micmac988 wrote:
He's a hero for doing what too many of us can't or won't do, put their lives on the line for <i>a cause greater than ourselves</i>.

Halliburton's quarterly profits?

Nah Bushes illusions of Grandeur!
Micmac
I sincerely believe that the Soldiers in Iraq for the most part are heroic, and improving all the infrastructure with true wishes to better things for Iraqi's. But the point is if numb nuts Bush and his cronies hadn't put them in their deadly "catch 22" by ordering them to blow up all the infrastructure in the first place; and to wipe out hundreds of thousands of people for no reason, creating chaos and hatred, heroic Soldiers wouldn't be coming home in Coffins. It's always the little guy who pays for the misdeeds of the Elite. Soldiers shouldn't be used in the manner that the US sometimes uses them. There supposed to be defending the US, not being used in a global game of command and conquer. They deserve better than that. Much better!
Iraq for all its faults was one of the more progressive and Secular countries in the middle east. Women didn't have to run around in traditional garb, went to school and worked, until you guys showed up and fucked things up. America threw their freedoms back a hundred years by toppling Saddam!

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quincy0191, on 12/2/2008 11:25:34 PM
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I support the troops. I really do.

That said, the war is just about the stupidest thing America has ever done. We need out of it, and now, not in 2011.

The thing I can never understand is: pro-IRAQ war supporters can't possibly support the troops. If they did, they would realize that sending them in when it is not ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY NECESSARY is telling them that they are meaningless. That their lives are expendable, and that they don't have a right to be safe unless the SECURITY OF THE NATION IS AT SERIOUS RISK. And it's pretty obvious that the Iraq war isn't completely necessary; Saddam had no weapons, we don't need to be spreading democracy (whether through war or other means), and invading a foreign country for economic reasons is so wrong it can't be justified on any level whatsoever.

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evrolution, on 12/3/2008 7:47:46 PM
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props to bulshoy, good point made.

shouted because i hate this country and what it has become. However, you did make your own decisions and the consequences of those actions cannot be fought against...you made them.

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