let me say it gently, this way:

Damn it, Shambles, I WAS discussing the issue! I was NOT "making a personal judgement"!!!!!! The ****STATEMENTS**** you made were not, in my opinion, either accurate or useful! YOU may be a sterling fellow, but your arguments are unsound....if you are going to take "personal" offense at having them critiqued, I can't stop you, but **I** was speaking to the message, not the messenger.

I DO have some opinions about your tendency to take almost all disagreement personally, but that was not what was going on above.