Washington ? Susan Schuman’s son writes home from Iraq complaining of poor living conditions, skimpy water rations and dozens of daily attacks on U.S. troops that go unreported.

The mother of a Massachusetts National Guardsman stationed in Iraq since March, Schuman has joined others — longtime pacifists, military veterans and parents with children on extended deployments — in a campaign to bring them home.

“Our soldiers are demoralized. They are fighting an illegal and unjustified war,” Schuman said at a news conference Wednesday introducing the campaign, Bring Them Home Now.

They want the U.S. occupation in Iraq to end, even if they disagree on how to take care of the war-ravaged country.

“I want to bring them all home now and let the Iraqi people determine the future of Iraq,” said Stan Goff of Raleigh, N.C., a military veteran whose son is serving in Iraq.

The campaign’s name is a twist on President Bush’s comment at a July news conference. Responding to attacks on U.S. forces, Bush taunted: “Bring ’em on.”

The utterance was criticized as an encouragement for violence against American troops.

Ellen Barfield, vice president of the Bring Them Home Now campaign, left, consoles Fernando Suarez del Solar of Escondido, Calif., center, whose son died in Iraq and is shown in the poster at right, and Maria Fritz of Oakton, Va., whose son is still in Iraq. The three were part of a news conference Wednesday in Washington calling on President Bush to end U.S. occupation in Iraq and return the troops to their home bases.

Set up as a resource for military members while sending a political message, the campaign was initiated by groups including Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. It unites the anti-war crowd with those increasingly disenchanted with the U.S. occupation.

With no weapons of mass destruction yet found and steady reports of American troop deaths, the campaign has received more support from military families who initially backed the war, but are now asking why their country went there in the first place, said Charley Richardson, whose Marine son returned from Iraq in May.

The campaign started last month and now receives dozens of e-mails every day, Richardson said. Not all of the messages are favorable, with some writers accusing the group of undermining troop morale by questioning the war and reconstruction efforts.

Organizers are urging people to press their senators and representatives to bring troops home.

Nearly 150,000 U.S. military personnel are currently in Iraq.

Since Bush declared major combat operations over on May 1, combat casualties have reached 60, with the latest U.S. soldiers killed Wednesday, according to U.S. Central Command. Overall, 269 service members have died in hostile and nonhostile operations since the military operation began.