After reading the articles on Blackfive, Michelle Malkin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and watching the video on Hot Air I’m wondering what all the noise is about?

So the folks at discount-mats don’t like the war. So what? Don’t do business with them. But turn it into a big media event? Send threatening emails and phone calls? Don’t you think we are being a bit overly sensitive here?

The email exchange, what there is of it, looks like this (courtesy of Blackfive):

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On Tue Jan 16 3:25, contact@discount-mats.com sent:

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

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From: contact@discount-mats.com [mailto: 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

Big deal. They didn’t tell Sgt. Hess that they hoped he got blown to bits by an IED, did they? They expressed their opinion and left it at that. Unlike some public anti-war zealots that we can all think of, they didn’t call the troops war criminals, etc. It seems to me that a big deal is being made out of something insignificant. I’m sure there are lots of mat companies that would be happy to ship to an APO. They might even donate some mats to the troops. So move on and find someone who wants to do business with you.

And by the way, why is a Sgt. buying mats anyway? Isn’t is the job of our military to keep these guys properly equipped? Say, at least a Korean war era cot maybe? They’re out there in harms way every day, the least we could do to support them is give them some place other than the ground to sleep.