The road to Abu Ghraib...

Evan Derkacz
May 18, 2005News & Politics

...is paved with an over-extended military. Take this blogger/soldier for example, who wrote "Gotta love the MOTHER FUCKIN MARINE CORPS" in the face of a third tour, just 2 months back from a second. Neit writes: "If I have to go I'm gonna fuck some shit up going nuts to get it outta my system before I go just to make sure this time I don't miss a thing if you know what I mean well atleast as best you can if you've never had to deal with something this FUCKING HUGE placed in your mind as such a burden that you're whole mentality just shifts cause of that fear I wish you all who don't have to deal with a life like that could jump into my head for a second you'd wanna go fucking nuts too! ha ha ha ha...LET'S GO EAT SOME BABIES AND SHOOT SOME ROO'S" (Neit Zero via Metafilter)

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