Some of you have been following Leonard Clark's story as I have been posting his letters and voicemails. He has posted several more letters the past few days on a site I created for him @
http://www.leonardclark.com/blog.Here is his latest letter:
Goooood Moooooorning Iraaaaaaaaaq!
Well, well, it seems I seems that the "support Big Brother" mail is starting to come in which is no surprise because I fully expected it. One entity commented: why bring your unit down? Keep your head on straight. Well, in response to the first question, I and most of (but not all by no means) my fellow soldiers are already down as you call it. Don't blame low morale on me! Hell, have you ever seen somebody blown in half ? Have you ever wondered why in the hell do you have to die fighting for a F***G lie!
You are correct I volunteered for my National Guard to fight for such as trivial things as the Defense of my nation not this F****G lie! I love my fellow brother and sisters who are my fellow soldiers why the f*****K should they die for a F*****K lie ! You and your fascist, theocratic Orwellian think jack booted thugs will never shut me up!
When GOD takes me then he will take me. Let me tell you why I joined the National Guard, I knew that many of my fellow soldiers young and old were suffering. I never got the fellowship of the U.S Army out of my system. When my family is suffering I can't just stand by. Now, that might be incorrect thinking but like General Lee couldn't turn his back on his beloved Virginia I couldn't turn my back on my beloved soldiers.
Yes, I am sure that there are soldiers who have read my words and hate me and hope that I die by the hands of our enemies but I can tell you that my brothers and sisters that I know love me and I love them and they agree with the basic premise of my messages: that we are dying for a lie and fat cat three piece suited politicians who make sure they and their loved ones never have to face be mutilated or decapitated by a bomb.
I would be a liar if I said that I wasn't afraid every time I got out the friggin wire because I am but dammit this friggin liberal goes anyway. For the last two days I have gunned up in the turret my fellow gunner was feeling pretty bad and I friggin volunteered and let him drive so just know one thing I am my friggin right to free speech almost every day in this hell.
The United States by its very presence in the Middle East is helping the bad guys win! Ridiculous you say well look at these facts: Hezbollah in Lebanon has now many more seats in a democratic election, in Iran we have made it easy for hard line Moslem Fundamentalist to fan the flames of hate against our country and now a hard line Moslem fundalmentalist has won the election there. If you say these gains by terrorist affilated Moslem fundalmentalist have nothing to do with the U.S. presence in the Middle East you are living in dream land. The tyrants all over the Middle East are now thanking us for our presence (not the least of all the tyrant in Syria) because we have now enabled them to gain more strength.
Witness the general in Washington saying that there are more terrorist coming into Iraq than 6 months ago and that the terrorist are just as strong if not stronger than they were a year ago! Commanders here have publicly and at great risk to their careers have stated that they need many thousands more of soldiers just to properly keep out the suicide bombers and other terrorists who are coming in through Syria but their repeated pleas for reinforcements have been met with denials. When they take towns from the terrorist and then have to leave they acknowledge that this is one of the worst things you can do in gurellia warfare because the terrorist come right back in and terrorize the very towns people who supported our troops. In short the "Big Talk" is made by the liars in Washington D.C. that we are winning and that we soldiers are given all the means at our disposal to protect ourselves when in reality the suicide car bombers and many more terrorists are flowing like water into Iraq where they then kill my fellow soldiers. It is lie to say that we soldiers are being given all means at our disposal to defend ourselves when are not.
We have been told by the leadership at the top if we make a mistake and accidently shoot at someone we think is trying to kill us we may be court martialled. But, rest assured those leaders that give us these rules to cover their asses and whom hardly leave the protected bases in which we stay will roasted we enlisted soldiers.
Unfortunately, we soldiers now are in "Catch 22" either fire on a vehicle we feel that is going to ram us and blow us to smithereens knowing that it might not be a terrorist suicide bomber or don't fire and possibly die knowing that we let our brothers in our Humvee die because we didn't fire and it was a suicide bomber.
In this way the leaders will not be court martialled be we will be and to top matters off we will be labeled as war criminals. Our leaders have put us in this terrible situation. The problem is not that the Iraqi people can't take care of themselves because they are very intelligent. You should see all of the automobiles over here. These cars don't run on their own and are not fixed on their own when they break down they are fixed by many thousands and thousands of mechanics. Another thing there is alot of construction going on here not by American contracted workers but by Iraqi companies they know electronics like the back of their hands, perhaps that is why alot of them are so good at building bombs to kill me and my fellow soldiers. The point is they don't need us here like some patronizing big brother or parent to baby sit them. Their leaders tell you the American people this so that the many billions of dollars flowing into Iraq out of the United States treasury will keep flowing. Do you know that the Iraqi cannot account for hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer dollars or that they also cannot for billions of their own oil money that we held for them before the war? Surprise, Surprise, there is alot of happy Swiss bankers in Europe right now. Hell, if I was a crooked Iraqi politician (like many of them are) I would be getting fat, lazy and rich right now.
A real solution would be to station a strong force of troops comprised of many nations in Kuwait and other nearby countries that would under the agreement of a time table plan strongly reassure the Iraqi people that we would again intervene (if needs be) if Syria or Iran tried to move in. The leadership should immediately convene a special session of the U.N. and the Security Council to implement this immediately. Rest assured the lie that Iraq will fall apart tommorrow if we have a time table and leave will not happen. We will make it harder on the haters of our great and beautiful country the United States of America to strengthen themselves.
We have people in this country Iraq like Al Sadr who are now running their militias with impunity and you know how a man that we once labeled a murderer can do this ? Because, the Iraqi government has officially ruled that it is quite alright for militias to operate in Iraq. Sadr, is a future Khomeni of Iraq yet we are allowing the Iraqi government to sleep politically in bed with him. He has many followers and representatives in the Iraqi parliament and is growing in strength every day. He is now telling the people in Sadr city (as reported in Stars and Stripes paper) that he has given them peace and stability and medical aid but that the Americans only brought them bullets. How in the hell are we establishing a democracy here when this man is growing stronger?
Oh, and now it has been revealed by our leaders that they have been negotiating with the very terrorist they say we have to fight. They say well we haven't been negotiating with Al Qaida or Zarqawi but what they don't like to you is that they tried to negotiate with Al Ansar the group behind the bombing of the Dining Facility in which 22 people died many of which were our are soldiers! So what's it gonna be are we gonna really fight'em or are you going to negotiate with them while they are murdering with my fellow brother and sister soldiers?
In fairness to many of our military leaders they probably know the foolishness and negligence of how things are being run here in Iraq (even though there will always be yes men) but they are subserviant (rightfully so) to the civilian authority in Washington D.C.
So here we are myself and my fellow soldiers. Like I said the hate mail is already starting to come but these are mine and many of my fellow soldiers beliefs these words and feelings that I state are out of conscience if the military wants to court martial me they will not deter me in my sincere and heart felt belief that not one more American soldiers should die! -N.O. M.A.S. !
If you do not here from me again just assume that they have killed me or sent me on a suicide mission where I was killed or that I was arrested. Also, be prepared for the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" scenerio in which like the Soviet Union used to do in which they labelled their opponents as insane and had them institutionalized and finally, don't believe them if I mysteriously die and they claim I killed myself, (how many times has that old one been used by autocratic and tryannical governments?)
In the meantime call me what you will but I will go out of the wire every day with my brothers and sisters in the 860th M.P. company. Please, pray for my fellow soldiers and me because right now we are just pawns in a political game to enrich oil companies and crooked politicians who do not want to explain why we are pulling out after over 1,700 American soldiers have died.
"What does it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul?"
Don't give up the fight! Si, Se Puede, Viva Caesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, and Mr. Ghandi !
Leonard Clark (the damned liberal patrolling the mean streets of Iraq every day)
Inner City public school Kindergarten teacher
Candidate for U.S. Senate Arizona against Kyl
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