A Good Story
06.12.05My friend Pam, posted this on her personal site. I’m sure alot of you have already read it, or seen it floating around the net. But I haven’t posted it yet, so I’d like to.
A mother 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.
But 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 shoulders, 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!
Fake.
# June 12th, 2005 at 7:44 pmhttp://www.snopes.com/rumors/lapelpin.asp
# June 12th, 2005 at 7:45 pmdude.
who cares. It’s a good “story”. It doesn’t claim to be true anywhere. It’s just a nice read.
# June 12th, 2005 at 9:53 pmGeez…”What are you guy’s tryin’ to do? Ruin my life and make me look like a frikkin idiot? Gosh!”
Can you say party pooper?
# June 12th, 2005 at 11:15 pmsays “undetermined” at snopes.com
They say they don’t know if it’s real or if it’s fake. How is this proof that its fake?
# June 12th, 2005 at 11:20 pmYou WANT it to be real, just like Dubya WANTED the WMD’s to be in Iraq. Oh, wait, he KNEW they weren’t there, he just wanted YOU to believe the lie. Do you still believe Bush’s justification for war?
Why do Right Wingers hate human beings that aren’t White and Christian?
# June 13th, 2005 at 9:52 amYes because Saddam totally didn’t gas those Kurds.
This is what we get for relying on UN intellgence. Which said he had WMDs. Your a clever one.
# June 13th, 2005 at 11:53 amhelllloooo the twit had 10 YEARS to dismantle and bury the weapons in the vast cat box. and reality check, i’m a right winger AND and atheist. stop lapping up deans spewings and you wont choke as much.
# June 13th, 2005 at 12:18 pmSo if he dismantled and buried them in the cat box for ten years, what were those nice satellite pictures Colin Powell was going around showing everybody? And if the weapons were dismantled, how the Sam Hill was he going to send us a bomb “in forty-five minutes,” like Tony Blair said?
I’m sorry, but that story about the shrew in a burkha has got to be one of the most messed up things I’ve heard in a long time. So now it’s the Iraqis fault that Americans are over there killing them? I thought it was Michael Moore’s fault? Or is it Howard Dean’s fault? You people need to get your story straight.
# June 13th, 2005 at 2:42 pmCLAP LOUDER!!!!!!!!!
# June 13th, 2005 at 7:05 pmSadie, its all your fault. Now go away.
# June 13th, 2005 at 7:37 pmbwa haha.
# June 13th, 2005 at 7:50 pmSadie, read it and weep, here’s what your OWN PARTY said about the WMD’s
# June 13th, 2005 at 9:07 pmYeah Liz, I know, I know. The DC Dems are a bunch of pantywaists who were intimidated by the Republican sheist and swagger. Don’t get me started. Why do you think I voted for Dean in the primary?
Anyway, just wanted to let you know I’m gonna drop this. All I’m getting out of ya’ll anymore is kool aid, kool aid, kool aid, tofu, green tea and more kool aid. “bwa ha and clap louder.” Shooting fish in a barrel gets kind of boring after a while.
Take care.
# June 14th, 2005 at 8:20 amWhy is it that no one can argue rationally anymore?
# June 14th, 2005 at 9:51 amI told ‘em to behave or it’ll get out of hand but did they listen to me? NoOooooooo. Noone wants to hear it from the guy who’s always right.
# June 15th, 2005 at 5:30 ambut this one is real for sure:
http://www.snopes.com/military/icecream.htm
A few years after a couple of kids used a made-up name to sign up for a free yearly ice cream cone, they received a draft notice for their non-existent friend.
# June 15th, 2005 at 6:20 amDoesn’t matter if the specific story is true or not, it exemplifies the attitude that such as Ev and Sadie spew everyday.
“Shooting fish in a barrel gets kind of boring after a while.”
I would imagine so Sadie, especially when you still miss them on a consistant basis.:lol:
As far as WMD’s go, even The U.N.’s own analysts are saying that equipment that could be used for WMD’s was removed from at least 109 sites in Iraq….But of course, those are just figments of their imaginations…I think we’d have quite a surprise for the apologists if we could get in the Becca valley in Lebanon; I’m hopefull that once the political situation stabilizes there, we may just get a call from the new government asking if we want to “come get this Iraqi junk out of our territory”.
# June 15th, 2005 at 3:18 pmHere’s another story. Thank you President Bush and Don Rumsfeld!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0618evth...
John Tod of Mesa had been prepared to face Father’s Day worrying about his son’s pending date with the war in Iraq.
Then Uncle Sam stepped in with more disappointing developments.
Marine Pfc. Jeremy Tod called home with news that his superiors were urging him and fellow Marines to buy special military equipment, including flak jackets with armor plating, to enhance the prospects of their survival.
The message was that such purchases were to be made by Marines with their own money.
“He said they strongly suggested he get this equipment because when they get to Iraq they will wish they had,” Tod said.
# June 20th, 2005 at 9:06 pm