Dear Mom - a Marine's letter home from Iraq

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Iraqi journalist Dahr Jamail has written an article that includes letters from many people, both civilians and military, on the front lines in Iraq ... the article's disturbing title: "Today is Better Than Tomorrow" ... one of the letters he received was from a US Marine stationed near Ramadi ... read it and ask yourself why anyone would support keeping US troops in Iraq even for one more day ... the mission makes no sense ... all we're doing over there is killing people, threatening people for information and kicking in doors and frightening civilians ... it is all utter madness and still the sage American politicians and their followers believe they have a path to success ... it's time to cut-off funding for continued offensive operations and get the troops the hell out of there as quickly as their safety allows ... we are not helping the Iraqi people with our presence ...

here's the Marine's letter to his mom:

This is such a nightmare. If my son survives, he'll be embittered forever...This is a portion of his angry email....I found it very disturbing....please excuse the spelling, he's in a hurry and exhausted when he writes....his point is to kill the Iraqis before they kill him. Now it's just a race for life. Insane."

Her son's email reads in part:

"I was gonna call you but the phone is broken. I hate this place more than anywhere else i've been. I guess is a compilation of all the time I've done overseas fighting. Bullshit fights, its really bringing me down. I can't wait till all this is over…I'll be the biggest anti-war person this country will have… at least against this war in Iraq....Let's go fight a different one somewhere else cause this one is lost. I swear i wish you could spend a week over here…you would know it's lost. You can't stop ‘holy warriors,' especially in their territory. Tonight we are about to go drop off generators to the enemy (Iraqi civilians) hoping they will give us info about the enemy (bullshit storys). The shit your tax dollars go to would make you puke. You really would puke. I almost do when i think about it..... thomas jefferson would have a heart attack if he saw all the shit goin on today. Oh well. I really hope it changes soon when Bush is out…but i doubt it. I thinks its all Gods plan…he runs the show no matter what. Fate and all that…its good to trust him.

"…I'll keep the machine gun lubed in hopes of killin em all at the first opportunity for you. I love you ma and i know that no matter what you support me. I hope you don't find this email burdensome. Just hit delete if that's the case."

His mother added:

"You can see how the war is destroying my son's morale, and whittling away at his spirit. Now it's just a killing game."