GI Malkin to report for duty in Iraq

http://www.fumento.com/weblog/archives/2007/01/gi_malkin_to_re.html

The picture of Michelle Malkin above belongs to Michael Fumento… In his post he says, “…she's so small both in height and frame that she may constitute the lightest embed ever to go over. When I gave her my body armor and helmet on Christmas Day I honestly thought she might tip over. I wear an X-Large while she's a Super-Tiny….”

Michael Fumento has a post, which I just came across today, about blogger, columnist author and Fox News analyst Michelle Malkin’s trip to Iraq.

To her credit, she wanted to go to Iraq and see for herself the morale of the troops and the facts on the ground.

What she may find is as a colleague of mine, who spent a tour of duty in Northern Iraq found – and wrote, in a recent e-mail to me after he read my Tentacle column, which in part, I mentioned him…

“… the article, its right to the very point. I wish that it was easy to explain how things are working over there, the different factions, the different hats that the enemy can wear, and the friendly as well. Sadly i dont think its possible to make people understand any of that…”

[The Tentacle column, from December 20, 2006, “An Uneasy Truce ,” (“Christmas is within a week and my thoughts and prayers go out to the men and women in uniform who are deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.”) - can be found here.]

We wish her a safe trip and Godspeed.

GI Malkin to report for duty in Iraq

January 4^th, 2007

By Michael Fumento

Michelle Malkin has announced she's heading for Iraq. I've known of this for a little while and have had mixed feelings. On the one hand, she's an old friend dating back about 13 years. She can seem hard-edged in her blogs and columns, but some of her worst enemies would take a liking to her if they knew her in person. Put another way, I don't want to see her butt zapped.

Conversely, I have repeatedly exhorted that nobody can understand Iraq or the war who hasn't been there. The vast majority of self-styled Iraqi experts at the think tanks and in the media have not in fact been there. Some have called them chicken hawks and "Chairborne Rangers;" I will simply say they are ignorant. Michelle has blogged constantly on Iraq…

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Read the rest of his post here. It is worth the time.

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