By Elaine Brower, 7/7/06
Yesterday I was speaking
with my son who is a Marine stationed in Fallujah. Every so often I am
lucky enough to get a phone call, but the conversations have a
background noise. All I hear when speaking with him is mortar fire and
machine guns hammering away at something. My imagination runs away with
me, although it isn’t an imaginery time. This is real gun fire, not
fireworks on display.
The Warrior Mother in me wants to reach
through the phone and magically remove my son from harm. He’s trying to
carry on a normal conversation about food, movies and what he is
thinking about doing when he returns home in December, and I am ready
to vomit. Not only because my son is in harm’s way, but because our
Government put him there for absolutely no reason except power, greed
and stupidity.
George Bush and his criminals should not only
send their children to Iraq, but they should go put on all that heavy
equipment in that sweltering heat, not eat a real meal for a year, and
get shot at all day long. We will see how long they would last and what
they thought about “bringing democracy” to this Country that they
destroyed and are now attempting, in vain, to rebuild.
So today
I get an email from the Company Commander in Iraq. These messages are
received by “Marine Moms” on a daily basis. The message is contritely
named “The Fallujah Courant.” The 1st Sgt., or Sir, as he likes to be
called, recounts the events of yesterday. “Mortars hit us yesterday not
on the fourth. No one was injured but once again there was a little
damage to the compound…..I put mortar frag in my cereal for
breakfast, so bring it on…”
This Man from Mars then goes on
a tirade about what good work they are doing building Iraq, and how in
2004 there was a government put in place and some farmland irrigated.
Of course in 2004, after billions of our tax dollars hard at work were given
to Halliburton, Bectel, and many more degenerates living off the spoils
of war, Iraq is their “farmland”. But of course there is the façade of a
“Government”. Over 2,530 soldiers died and 25,000 horribly wounded to
show how great we are at building a “democracy”.
I have news
for the 1st Sgt. those mortars are being aimed at sons, fathers and
husbands. The cavalier attitude displayed in these daily messages is
mind boggeling.
So I will remain Anti-war, Anti-Bush Crime
Family and keep fighting the mentality that we are “spreading
democracy” and “helping” the poor and downtrodden. However, reading
these daily newsletters will always make me vomit.
—
Elaine Brower is an anti-war Mother of
a Marine Corps. Sgt. currently stationed in Iraq. She has appeared in
the NY Daily News, NY Times, Good Morning America, and was interviewed
by Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. She is an outspoken anti-war,
anti-Bush Military Mom; and a spokesperson for the “World Can’t Wait,
Drive Out the Bush Regime.”