February 01, 2004


Dear Unelected Fraud,

While you were out vacationing in Crawford, taking those cat-naps or hanging with your rich homeboys at Camp David about 500-plus Americans braver than you got themselves killed so you could make sure CheneyBurton and your other campaign contributors got richer via their offshore job-stealing companies.

But wait, Dear Leader, now there's word that some more of the Brave Americans who have been sent to Iraq to play in your mythical republican word games (imminent) are trying to take their own lives, and some have succeeded. Are you not ashamed? No, because being a Fuck-Up means never having to say you're sorry.

Texas Army Specialist Joseph Suell told his mother he wasn't cut out to fight the Iraq war.

"He said 'Momma I haven't killed anybody here and I hope I never have to kill anybody,'" said Rena Mathis.

Instead, the 24-year-old husband and father of three apparently took his own life.
...
An army study three years ago forecast an impending soldier-suicide crisis, but critics say it was largely ignored until more than 600 U.S. soldiers began being evacuated from Iraq for psychiatric reasons.

"I tried to blow my head off with my weapon and then one split second more and I would have succeeded," one soldier said. "I mean I had the gun to my head with the safety off, with the round chambered."

McNamara wanted to know, "What saved you?"

"They did, they took the weapon away from me," he answered.

What will your life be like when you are tossed out of office this year? Will you try some extra-constitutional means to hold on to power? Will it be a Shred-Fest at Fortress 1600 as you try to destroy the evidence of your mis-administration?

SPC Suell and many others will be looking for the answers as they sit in silent judgement of your actions. I doubt you have too many coherent anwers. You never do.

Yours truly,

Jo Fish, a guy who actually kept his oath.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.01.04 at 01:01 AM





Comments:

Jo Fish-

Glad to see you write about this heartbreaking story. I spent a few days with the Joseph's family over Martin Luther King weekend. They are some of the warmest, kindest, most patriotic people one could hope to meet.

Our government and press, by distancing themselves from the painful reality of war and its consequences, have not shown the families that have lost loved ones the respect they deserve.

To me it feels as if the government is shunning them. Receiving a form letter from Bush is not what I believe most citizens expect our government's response to be.

I'm in the process of starting a documentary about the lives of three soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq. I believe that regardless of our position on the war in Iraq it is our duty to honor and respect the soldiers who died in the name of our country. And naming them, sharing the memories of the loved ones left behind, hearing their letters home, is my attempt to show the soldiers and the families that their loss is not just theirs to bear. We are all indebted to them.

Shelly
ThreeSoldiers.com
(under construction)

 posted by: Shelly on 02.01.04 at 09:12 AM [permalink]

First it is the Sheriff's car with lights but no siren driving by slowly with a line of cars with their headlights on. You stop and take off your hat until they passed, knowing that they will turn right and head to the cemetary.

A half hour later you hear the F-15s overhead and look up at the all too familiar formation with its conspicuous gap. Sometimes it's helicopters, for the Special Ops guys.

You don't hear the shots or the bugle, but you sense them, and you know someone will be walking back to a car carrying a starry blue triangle.

It's hard to live on my road.

That cowardly, lying piece of garbage has got to go.

posted by: Bryan on 02.01.04 at 04:28 PM [permalink]

It is so sad. Maybe troops suicided in WWII; I was just a little boy and wouldn't know. Maybe they did in Korea (maybe still do). Probably did in Vietnam. And now Iraq.

A suggestion to the Dems: Why not frame George Walker Bush for what he is -- a lying drunk.

posted by: Andrew Smith on 02.01.04 at 04:29 PM [permalink]

One of the soldiers who did this had 4 children, his mother said "he is in a better place.." for a man who was about bringing love into the world he took his own power to love away. Christ forgave a soldier at the foot of the cross for following bad orders, prayers for his. Good men should not face these decisions.

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 02.04.04 at 08:07 AM [permalink]


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