First of all, they should know me better than to send me this crap.
Secondly, most of it is chock-full of misinformation, bigotted logic and not-so-subtle inuendo that if you don’t agree, you should rent a U-Haul and ship your goods and your ass off to Iraq.
Is it worth taking the time to answer these people or should I just delete it and forget about it?
Does anyone have a good email to send back?
Spam is spam, whoever the spammer.
Hmm, I’ve been having this same dilemma you describe lately. It’s a bit sticky with some of my friends - and my father is trying to make me “see the light” (groan). One of the emails my dad sent me was sooooo iritating though, that it made me want to reply something scathing and wicked…but I was good. lol…I think deleting it is probably the best way to deal with it, but I suppose you could say, “Thanks for your email. I guess we can agree to disagree?”
Ooops, meant to say “irritating”.
I just spent the last hour and a half writing a response to a pro-war email that my step-daughter sent me. I had no idea that she had any support for the war until she forwarded this email. If fact, she has watched TV coverage with me for the last couple of days, and I still didn’t know!
Maybe it was my “Citizen of the World” t-shirt that set her off.
Fortunately for me, my email response to the whole family didn’t work and I have saved myself a lot of grief.
If your family is the sort that can say, “You piss me off. Let’s go eat” then you can get away with telling them what you think without major damage. But I’m not going to send my response until I’ve had a chance to talk with her one on one. Her friendship and my entire family is more valueable to me than my indignation at the moment.
Email them back any of these links 
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/bliraqcurrency.htm
I keep getting un-cited nonsensical glurge from friends, but in the anti- camp. On occasion I have debunked several points and sent it back. I am anti-war too, but not anti-truth.
Yes, I seem to be getting emails that either say (a) adding my name to a petition will stop the war; (b) it’s all about Israelis and Palestinians; or © if I don’t go out and buy a Union Jack and starting waving it wherever I go I’m some kind of pink commie traitor.
Delete, delete, delete.
Pink? Well, maybe. Pinko would have been better.
Just keep in mind, there are men and women that are doing a job that might mean that they won’t take take another breath. They are are doing this for you. Woud you do the same for them?
They get deleted immediately. Don’t even read them, regardless who they are from.
As jjimm said, I am anti-war but not anti-truth. However most of the people who send me this garbage are not interested in the truth no matter how well you state the obvious.
::shrug::
lite, as someone who has saved a few lives in my time - yes I would do the same.
Let’s not turn this into a debate. Wrong forum.
This thread is about spam, not the people doing this for me. Don’t even go there.
One of the ones I got several times was rhetorically “Look at all these US military incursions. How many of these countries are now under democratic rule?”
While the US military actions listed were indeed factually correct, several of the countries are now in fact under democratic (or at least less totalitarian) governments (e.g. Grenada, Afghanistan), and several of them were US military aggression - for ill or ill - that weren’t aiming for that end (e.g. Laos and Cambodia). In the end there were only one or two countries on the list that were indeed unsuccessfully attacked by the US in order to install democracy (e.g. Vietnam). A less-than-effective piece of glurge.
I delete it unread, just like the rest of the heartwarming stories, amazing offers of free money, and virus alerts that my family insists on sending me.
Washte, I assume this isn’t a flame forum. We would prolly be good friends in a tavern. I’m just tired of seeing protesters when polls show 76% supporting and 20% against war.
Well, I usually read them, and critique them. Then I delete them. If they are chock full of errors, I write back to the sender and poitn them out.
Anti mail I just delete, becuase I got tired of all the astounding amount of anti-american and wrong information contained therein.
Maybe where you live but not where a few posters on this thread are from.
Disagreeing with this war is not shitting on the troops. Soldiers don’t make political decisions they are just doing their jobs. I and many others disagree with the politicians who put these people in the position you describe.
As for mails I’ve been lucky and got never pro or anti spam.
You are correct lite. This is not a flame forum (see the BBQ Pit for these).
Just as you are fed up with anti-war spam (assuming you receive them), so am I fed up with the pro-war spam, especially when someone you do not even know sends you mail about the earthquakes in France from all the American war dead rolling over in their graves.
I’m sorry, but to use the bodies of our brave war dead to take a shot at France is sick. They died for freedom - that includes the freedom to disagree with the USA.
As yojimbo mentioned perhaps the statistics in your neck of the woods are as you say, but…
I think it all depends on your relationship with whoever sent the email. Generally speaking, that probably means just not responding to it. If it’s someone who you really care about and who is able to communicate rationally without flying off the handle, you might reply with your point of view.
My example is: A few weeks ago I sent a regular “Hi, how are you” kind of email to a former co-worker, and I made what I think was a pretty tame comment against what Bush was doing, and she sent back a very impassioned rant about how her brother is in the Persian Gulf, etc. etc. I didn’t reply to that because I don’t want to lose her friendship or upset her any further, and there seems like to be no “wiggle room” for communicating about it without excess emotionalism.
If they have Judeo-Christian beliefs (or pretensions), simply send them an e-mail that reads, in total,