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[Hostile]

Subject: Love this retort!
A woman writes: My son serves in the military.
He is still stateside right now. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also.
He also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base.
He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He
said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "Yes, I always wear it and I probably always will."
The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.
A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulder, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman:
"Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today.
But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid."
Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

[Comrade Kal]

It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today.

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Neither would she - she'd be dead.

[Shinigami]

It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today.

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Neither would she - she'd be dead.

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I do believe the point just did a flyover of your head.

[Ash]

Yeah I agree. Not just 1 person speaks out, but ALL of them. As is what should have happened. Saddam couldn't have shot them all.

[ComradeJ]

Odd thing is, nearly every Iraqi has an AK-47 home. Doesn't seem too hard to start a revolution...

[Comrade Kal]

Because people have spoken up, and what happened? Did everybody rush out into the streets and start a revolution? No, they kept their mouths shut in fear and watched as they got shot. You can't blame one woman for not causing a revolution.

[MSpencer]

Saddam Hussein's regime was one of the most efficient in dealing with political dissidents since the days of the NKVD purges in the 1930s. Layer upon layer of police organizations, watchdogs in nearly every agency, and people willing to sell out their neighbors crushed any chance of rebellion.
You can't blame the Russians for not standing up to the NKVD, can you? Same thing in Iraq.

[Silent_Killa]

It's unusual though, the people in Iraq wanted to rise up, but the US discouraged it, instead telling them to wait for the cavalry. Looking back, I think we should have let them, show the world that the US isn't there to take over, that we're there to liberate them.

[F-G]

... while wanting some economical profit.

U.S.A. altruist? What a joke.

[MSpencer]

If you want to play the stereotype game, don't you have some cocaine to make or something?

[skoolkid]

You say this is an email you got from a stranger? Sounds questionable to me. There've been quite a few of these emails circulating with stories about anti-war protestors getting humiliated in front of a crowd, which is always applauding and cheering the witty guy. Funny reads, though.

[Destroyer]

Isn't propaganda fun?

[Hostile]

I got it from a friend who had someone send it to him. I won't vouch that someone didn't just make it up. I thought it just intreresting reading.