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The War is Killing My Friends and I'm Sick of It From: SPC Fish
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:22 AM
To: soldiers@michaelmoore.com
Subject: I can't sleep
Thank you! Thank you for caring about us, speaking for us, and telling the truth. A British coalition soldier gave me his copy of Fahrenheit 9/11 while I was serving in Afghanistan. That soldier was involved in a suicide car bomb this month and we took care of him at the hospital. I just got back yesterday and looked you up. I've always been a liberal girl, and it ticks me off to no end that Bush is going to try to take away my rights and screw America over with his Christian-influenced "leadership." And what makes me even more angry is that all my friends and my husband are serving in a bullshit war in Iraq. I served in another bullshit war as a nurse in Kandahar.
I have sent soldiers with missing limbs, with vents breathing for them, with malaria infections, and with burns from IEDs and land mines back to Germany and I don't know why this had to happen in the first place. We will never find Osama, it's a lost effort. In Iraq, we are only breeding more terrorists because we won't leave them alone and let them fix their own problems. We just want to storm on in and make "functional governments" within the Middle East so we can profit from them and their oil. The war is killing my friends and I'm sick of it, I want my husband to come home alive. I'm sick of thinking about the soldiers screaming in the trauma bay before we took them to surgery, and I haven't even seen combat, only the effects. I watched C-SPAN today and saw my senator, Barbara Boxer, ask Condoleeza Rice why we're still there if no progress is being made. She could not answer it, her reply was a tap dance of excuses. It made me cry. Thank you for listening to us.
- SPC Fish Will I re-enlist? Hell no.
From: Joel Bottem
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 5:41 AM
To: soldiers@michaelmoore.com
Subject:
Dear Honorable Moore,
After several years out of the military, and many months of hearing the
media reporting how bad the National Guard and Reserves needed people, I
signed up for 1 year. It is an option the National Guard offers to Prior
Service personnel. It took me a year-and-a-half after 9/11 to convince my
wife I was needed, and that I had more to give to the service of our
country.
I joined for the 1 year, singing up as a mechanic with the 951st Maintenance
Company out of Camp Murray, Tacoma, Washington. With just 3 months remaining
on my contract, my unit gets activated, and I am put on a "stop-loss." My
executive officer laughingly told me President Bush has turned my "try-one
enlistment" into a "try-two-and-a-half." I am now attached to the 152nd
Maintenance Company, from Maine, serving in Baghdad, Iraq.
To add insult to injury, when our maintenance company arrived into Kuwait,
we were informed that the unit we were to be attached to in Iraq no longer
needed mechanics, so we would be doing "force protection." So we have an
entire maintenance company of approximately 240 soldiers, aside from maybe
20 personnel, pulling guard duty, while KBR mechanics make $140K and up to
do the work we were brought over to do.
I just turned 40 in July, my birthday was spent pulling guard duty on an
ammo holding area very near Baghdad. Will I re-enlist? Hell no.
Thanks for all you do!
Joel Bottem
Currently in Iraq, not Seattle where I should be
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"Sometimes I do what I want to do.
The rest of the time, I do what I have to."
Tommy Flanagan as Cicero,
The Gladiator "If you want to impress me, go to Baghdad." Dear Michael Moore:
I must say that you are always on point. I am a soldier serving in Iraq and till this day we still don’t know why we are here.
I sit and watch television and the bull shit that our leaders are feeding to the people on a daily basis. How can you be a President and spend over 800 billions of dollars destroying and rebuilding another country when we need help in our own country? How do you live with yourself knowing that innocent soldiers are dying every day just for you?
Majority of the troops here don’t even have missions, all they do is check people identification cards going into the PX or Hajji Bazaars or cooks working in airports or laundry room because they have civilian caterers to work in the dinning facilities. We are separated from our family, kids, husbands, wives and friends for a year just for the white house to look good. So our leaders can say “Yes we were the ones that destroyed and rebuild this country spending over 800 billions of dollars and we have veterans that have served their country, lost their legs, arms and their lives to be homeless, eating in shelters and no one gives a dam.
But what’s really gets under my skin is that we are over here fighting for $250.00 extra on our pay check for hazard pay or 225 dollars extra for being away from your families and you pay athletes, entertainers and singers billions of dollars to perform. If it was not for people like us that provide that freedom and give up our lives for that freedom that why are we paid so much less to be in harms way?
Oh yeah, I forgot they raised the life insurance from 250,000 to 400,000 when I die that will really benefit me a lot.
Mr. Bush, why are you wondering why people are getting out of the military regardless of the bonus money that you are throwing their way and why are you forcing soldiers to stay in the army past their time without any say so? I prefer Clinton any day, true he was getting his freak on in the White House, but who hasn’t and if they said they didn’t they would be lying.
This is the worst leadership in the history of leading and to get on national television telling lies about “They are doing so much over here” is pathetic. How would you know if you only visit places that are not in any type of danger? What is going on in Kuwait? Nothing. If you want to impress me, go to Baghdad where there is suicide bombings everyday where soldiers are dying. Not where you can give a concert and feel good about yourself? You should have known that if you and your brother manipulate the voting system that will stop you from doing the same to the world.
To be honest a lot of military personnel do not have any thing good to say about this Commander in Chief, he has proven to the world that he is truly the biggest fraud that the world has seen.
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