Are You Kidding Me?!?!?!?

[Scooper]

Has anyone see this story? I just copied it from FoxNews.com
I'm stunned... words cannot express the anger and rage that I feel right now...




Tuesday , January 23, 2007

An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.

What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, "If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."

Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.

In his email, dated Jan. 16, 2007, he asked the Web-based company, registered to Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent:

"Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first."

On the same day, Hess received this reply:

"SGT Hess,

We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.

Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com"

Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down.

Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address in Iraq.

[Squidnation]

Yes and the story is true. The company has fired the employee and the web site had to be taken down because of so many threats and complaints.

[Jer]

I like the last line "Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address in Iraq."

[jdkliesing]

I got this on an e-mail I never drank the stuff anyways and never will. You no on 9/11 everybody was scremin lets get'm what the hell happend.






I guess I will not be drinking Starbucks any more!

Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them
know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some
of it to the troops there.

Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support
of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, nor
anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee.

So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by
buying any of their products!

As a war vet writing to fellow patriots, I feel we should get this out in the open.
I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't
mean we don't support the boys on the ground fighting street-to-street and
house-to-house for what they and I believe is right.

If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it
and no one will ever know.

Thanks very much for your support. I know you'll all be there
again when I deploy once more.

"Semper Fidelis."
Sgt Howard C. Wright
1st Force Recon Co

1st Plt PLT

PLEASE DON'T DELETE THIS .... ALLOW IT TO BE PASSED TO
ALL IN MEMORY OF ALL THE TROOPS WHO HAVE DIED SO THAT WE MAY HAVE THE
RIGHT
TO CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THEM OR NOT!!!

[shoefish]

Scumbags. Even if you don't agree with the war, you've got to do whatever is in your power to support the men and women over there. No more starbucks for this kid.

[BYRD]

Heard about the mattress on the radio this morning. Unfreakingbelievable.

[fshsltwtr]

i gave starbucks a piece of my mind.....

http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thew...t_comments.asp

[jdkliesing]

fshsltwtr, thanks for the link they got my thoughts also.

[Mrs. Crabbs]

If you guys look that Starbuck story up on Snopes, it's false

[Squidnation]

I think the starbucks story has been proven false.