Caelestis of The Makaha Surf Report (Forward Deployed) can’t post a lot these days, seeing as he’s deployed in Iraq and waging the Global War on Terrorism as a defense contractor. But he’s keeping up with the blogosphere, especially those lunatics who would rather condemn our brave fighting forces than thank them for their service in the cause for freedom for America and her allies.

Caelestis posted with regards to a certain “Bob” who recently visited some hate mail upon Blackfive. In their responses to this “Bob” who simply does not deserve anyone’s time of day, I see both posts as valuable weapons for combatting the anti-American, anti-freedom left. The comment threads for both posts are (for the most part) moving testaments to, and praise of, the American soldier.

In brief: Caelestis takes it to “Bob” and leaves little meat to pick off of the bones. His final words ring true, but unfortunately they seem to require repeating, to push back on the military-hating, blame-America-first leftist elites such as Bob:

Bob, the noble quality of the U.S. soldier is something a person like yourself could never understand. We save lives, our enemies take them, we greet children with candy and school supplies, our enemies bring pain and death. We try to honor the Iraqi people’s customs and laws, our enemies break every law of Iraq, they destroy mosques on purpose and attack women and children and they do these things with no restraint. As for us being dirty fighters or not, it real easy to evaluate our men and women from your couch ain’t it bob? They fight and they win Bob, they treat the wounded among our enemies, our enemies kill our wounded if given the chance. Our men and women try to inflict as little damage on civilians as possible, our enemies use our restraint as a weapon to kill as many innocents as possible. You know what Bob this is a pointless exercise, if you see our men and women in uniform as evil, I have nothing further to say.

It’s just a damn shame that our military has to wage war on the home front as well as on the front lines with the terrorists, where they really need to focus.

Cross-posted at TMH’s Bacon Bits