Last Friday, Cinnamon Stillwell, a good friend and fellow blogger alerted me to an almost unbelievable "sales" response to one of our troops stationed in Iraq. The troop, one Sgt. Jason Hess serving with the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq. Sgt. Hess was inquiring about better mats for his troops to sleep on. Here is his email to Discount Floor Mats of West Allis, Wisconson:

To Whom it may concern:
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.

SGT Hess

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

Registrant:
Faisal Khetani
PO Box 270693
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53227 United States

Registered through: Teknon Domains
Domain Name: DISCOUNT-MATS. COM
Created on: 23-Mar-05
Expires on: 23-Mar-08
Last Updated on: 03-Mar-06

Administrative Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@ gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street West Allis, Wisconsin 53227 United States
(414) 543-9634

Technical Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@ gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street West Allis, Wisconsin 53227 United States
(414) 543-9634

I have no idea as to the ethnicity or political leanings of Mr. Khetani but I can tell when a sale will not be made. But this is typical of so many of the anti-war crowd from Jack Murtha on down. Say you support the troops, but when push comes to shove, treat them as trash, denegrate and degrade them and tell them what they are doing is not important. I don't know about you, but this really ticks me off, and apparantly it has ticked off a lot of others. When you go to the DFM website now this is what you get:

Ahhh, the power of a pissed off America (well, at least a pissed off portion of America, those still able to think and be proud and supportive of our troops).

So, having said all of the above, here is my letter to Mr. Khetani sent via email as apparantly there won't be a "contact us" page on his website for a while (snicker). Khetani's response is so outrageous it has even made the Urban Legends web page at Snopes.com

Mr. Faisal Khetani
sportsfitness@ gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street West Allis, Wisconsin 53227 United States
(414) 543-9634

Dear Mr. Khetani:

Given the recent blogswarm caused by you or someone in your company, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Cry because someone is so stupid as to believe that their response to Sgt. Hess wouldn't get out, or laugh at the sheer stupidity of the response. While I fully support (though I also think really stupid) someone's right to protest the war, did you (or one of your employees) not think that the response to Sgt. Hess was just a little above board? A simple "Sorry, we do not ship to APO addresses" would have sufficed, but no, the rank idiot had to put their political stamp on it to the detriment of a serving US soldier.

I strongly suspect that your business will suffer a loss of sales for this egregious behavior, as well it should. If you are the author of the reply to Sgt. Hess, you deserve everything that happens as a result. If it was one of your employees, than you have utterly failed to inculcate into them any since of business ethics. Either way, you sir are to blame. Furthermore sir, I am asking all of my readers to write you and tell you of their disdain for you and your employees.

Scornfully,
George M. Roper, III
http://gmroper.mu.nu

Please write to Mr. Khetani, tell him what you really think. Phone calls, emails, letters, lets let him know how business should be conducted in this great country.

ALSO posting on this topic (I'll update the list as I become aware of other posts):
Heidi at Euphoric Reality, Ms. Underestimated

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