Wisconsin company insults U.S. soldiers

Found on Snopes:

Below is an email exchange between a friend of mine's husband and a company that sells different types of mats. He is stationed in Iraq and was inquiring as to whether or not the company ships overseas. He wanted to get the troops better gear to sleep on. This is the companies response. I am floored. I am floored as a military wife and as an American. Please repost this so that this company will hear us loud and clear that we do not stand for this. Whatever your view is on this war - these troops are just following orders. Most are passionate about what they are doing. You can disagree with the war without disrespecting our troops.


From: SGT Jason Hess
Sent: Tue Jan 16 3:25

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

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From: contact@discount-mats.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Feedback: from discount-mats.com

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

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Discount Mats didn't respond to our inquiry, but Sgt. Hess wrote back to us and confirmed that the correspondence was real:

This is all fact and true what happened. I'm with the 1st BCT 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq just trying to find someone to send supplies that we needed.

Yep, those liberals. They really support our troops, don't they?

Let Discount Mats know what you think here.

UPDATE: Discount Mats has had to take their website down due to a deluge of angry emails. Unfortunately, some of those messages included death threats. Death threats don't accomplish anything, folks, except to scare people and get you in trouble for sending them. There are better ways of expressing outrage.

Meanwhile, our old friend Shannon commented, "There is nothing in the article that says Discount Mats is a liberal-run business." Yeah, you're right, Shannon. If it walks and quacks like a duck, it might just be a moose.