Need Help Responding To/Debunking This Email!

[funkybutt]

I found this on the 1088th's website, and thought that I would pass it on.

http://www.geocities.com/ang_1088th_en_bn/February_3_Emailings.html

Remember, Please pray for our US service men and women daily!

Jeremy

FW: Great Comeback!!

This is from a someone who's son is on his way to assist in Iraq.
One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, in California. 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 US 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.


Pass this on to all proud Americans,,,

[RobertSeattle]

1. I don't think many Iraqi Women wear burkha's

Sounds like a made up story to me.

[NYCGirl]

2. Snopes!

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lapelpin.asp

[RobertSeattle]

6. Snopes Rocks!

Conservatives sure love their fairy tales.

[Howardx]

3. seems to be everywhere

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Everyone+within+hearing+distance+cheered.&btnG=Search

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. This is astrotruth

[sniffa]

5. pLease respond with a hearty Laugh

and caLL them stupid for beLieving these bogus emaiLs. if you Like, give them the snopes Link.

on a side note..

my coworker got an emaiL from someone they used to work with (before my time) who's over there now. his emaiLs say nothing about how good things are - it's aLL avoiding road side bombs and Losing his best friends. he can't wait to get the heLL out of there, and in case he doesn't make it back...

[funkybutt]

7. Is it just me?

or does this email seem to perpetuate hate and disdain for the Iraqi people. I will certainly comment on the burkha, as that was the first likely innacuracy that I noticed. This propaganda has been emailed to millions of people at this point and it surprises me that nobody has corrected that.

[Sweet Freedom]

8. FYI: I added your thread

to the DU Propaganda Debunker:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=284x72

[dave123williams]

9. Pretty easy to debunk....

This story is pretty easy to debunk, because it's a lie.

Anybody ever see anyone anywhere in California in a Bhurka? Particularly an Iraqi?

I'm pretty sure that Bhurkas are worn by the women in Afghanistan, not by the women in Iraq. Duh.

So, the upshot of this story is that it's their fault that we're bombing them...that's rich.

[Coexist]

10. Here is some info on it

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/burqhastore.html