Your hope and resolve, Michelle, and $2.50 will get you a cup of (liberal, elitist, San Francisco-type) latte.

The question raised by “unexpected hope and resolve” is, who in the world did not think that Michelle Malkin would come away from Iraq babbling about hope and resolve? It may have been unexpected to you, Michelle, but we could have told you and saved you the cost of a plane ticket.

Modern war in the Middle East is no longer as cut-and-dried as shooting all the bad guys and going home.

Yep, you can tell MM has fought in a lot of wars.

Her article is written like a 1942 newsreel script. The enemy is a “flea” to be exterminated, the good Arabs are like children, the American military is brainy, brawny, courageous, grim-humoured, and baby-faced Daddy doing the parenting.

Michelle is such a little girl.

I have to admit I did enjoy the ‘Vent’ from Iraq that featured Michelle Malkin standing in front of a destroyed mosque claiming that the AP-Jamil Hussein story about that particular mosque being destroyed was false.

guess it must have been Jessie who was writing the blog all along. Imagine Michelle’s surprise when she gets back to the US and has a look at all “her” old posts and discovers she was a gung-ho war supporter the whole time. I imagine there’ll be some red faces at Malkinwald tonight. In fact, you could almost make a sitcom out of it. It’d be more “League of Gentlemen” than “Cheers” though

She came BACK?! I thought that was the deal. Nobody said anything about her coming BACK!!

DAMMIT!

Malkin:

These soldiers are well aware of the history, culture and sectarian strife that have wracked the Muslim world for more than a millennium. “They love death,” one gunner muttered as we heard explosions in the distance while parked in al Adil.

Wuzza? “They love death”? That’s the proof Malkin offers for her thesis that the soldiers are Islamic cultural scholars of the first order?

“I like ice cream” would have illustrated the point just as well. Better, actually, because at least that statement would be neutral.

“They love death” is the opinion of a guy who’s been in a chaotic shitstorm of a situation for a couple of months and wants the hell out.

or possibly “They Love Death” is just something he made up to feel better about shooting people he doesnt know for no reason. Certainly seems that everywhere american soldiers go, it’s always full of people desirous of being killed

also, what an awful sentence. she seems to be saying that history and culture have wracked the muslim world. what does that mean? how does this woman get paid to write? her hands should be cut off.

Certainly seems that everywhere american soldiers go, it’s always full of people desirous of being killed …

Excellent point, ich.

Cheney loves death.

Umm, yeah. Surely the malkin thing was going to have an epiphany in Iraq, come back and decide “y’know, sure, it’s going to cost me my entire livelihood, but I’m going to tell the truth about the hopeless horrorshow that Iraq has become”. Nope. Never was any hope of that happy crappy. Her life is dependent upon throwing red meat to the ghouls, and her trip was not for her own education but rather to provide an artificial credibility to her grotesque racist hate rhetoric. Nothing to see here folks…

mikey

Michelle Malkin is sadly disillusioned.

You’d sure think we’d find Islam more compatible now that we’ve blown the shit out of it.

I don;t know why you people have to make up lies about the past, next think we know you will be pretending we have not always been at war with eurasia er, eastasia

Dick Cheney leans over the desk and his lip curls into that familiar snarl. “MISTER Amedinejad. Look around. It’s a nice little caliphate y’got going here. It’d be a SHAME if something bad were to happen to it.”

Amedinejad leans back in his chair and smiles. But it’s a nervous smile. “Mr. Cheney” he says. “Your military is not only stretched to the breaking point, it’s completely vulnerable just across our border.”

Cheney doesn’t move. Not a muscle not a twitch. He gazes lizard like at his Persian adversary. Finaly he says “and your point is…’

Amdinejad leans forward in his chair. He presses his palms together, and rests his chin on the tips of his fingers. “You would have to be insane to attack Iran now” he states triumphantly.

Finally Cheney shifts. He straightens up, straightens his tie and looks Iran’s President directly in the eye. His lip twitches noticably. “Then we agree that there’s nothing stopping us”….

mikey

I get it now. We liberated the Iraqis from their oppressive ruler, but it turns out they loved death. So now we are helping the new rulers provide death for Iraqis. Yep, we’re just sitting around observing the fighting. Ok then, time to send 21,500 more soldiers to…do…something. Hold on, why are we still there?

Oh yeah. Death.

I lost twenty pounds on the sensational diet of “grim milestone!�

I think I know who Senior Ruppert is: Head over to Rude Pundit and read transcript:
Thus sayth Cheney/Ruppert: “The fact of the matter is, we can do more than one thing at a time and we have.”

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Hope and Resolve are the two stewardesses serving on return legs out of Baghdad. Just eat their cookies and soon you’ll feel right as rain.

We’ve destroyed countless precious texts and artifacts from centuries of Muslim civilization with “the roof is on fire” pumped through the headphones of 19 year olds. But they are the people who love death.

Hey mikey, I’ll be happy to serve as your agent when you decide to shop that novel out.

The fact is, most liberals would not have the gut to visit a combat zone like Malkin did, and her bravery must be applauded. She will surely be one of the sane to recommend internment of liberals for their own safety, as well as that of the republic. God bless our troops.

“visit” — nice.

I love a good fake Gary better’n anything except a 15-year-old Laphroaig. Slainte, “Gar.”

But they [the troops] are just as critical of the Bush administration and Pentagon’s missteps

Oh noes–teh troops hate teh troops!

Wait. By Malkins view, the war is over?

WHooooooo!!

Oh. Nevermind.

I have to make fun of Michelle for going to Iraq, because her balls are bigger than mine, and because she has been on tv and stuff.

It’s not fair. I mean, I’m a HUGE blogger, i won a gay award and everything, I should get to go to Iraq, I mean, NO, I shouldn’t get to go to Iraq because of all the wonderful Muslims we are repressing there, and the decapitations and stuff.

I don’t know what I mean, hold me Brad.

Gavin, the Iraqis will respect you if you kill them. This is key. Remember, they possess an Arab Mind. All your liberal sharia worship and fascist tendencies are useless if you refuse to oppress the Iraqis. This is how you achieve victory.

And will, you gotta have the will to power.

annieangel, the Shiites won’t let you flash those sexy legs. You need to wear a burka. This is according to the liberal sharia. You must submit to Allah but you also have to get abortions. We’ve worked this out with the Islamists.

Think about it: if you weren’t an American, wouldn’t you be better off dead ?

I wonder how long Malkin was really there. When you look closely at the timeline for these visits arranged with great fanfare, it often turns out there are a couple of days spent an Air Force Base in the U.S. getting briefed, then a day or two in Kuwait or Jordan waiting for the flight into Iraq, and then maybe a day spent in Kuwait or Jordan again on the way back.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/22/83819/0401day

It REALLY CUTS INTO that week of being embedded with the troops.

I noticed here http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006708.htm that two military bloggers are linked who have blogged from the same place Malkin was embedded.

http://bootsinbaghdad.blogspot.com/2005/08/kadhimiya-car-bombs-fob-justice-mortar.html
“Kadhimiya is one of the safest areas in Baghdad because the people that live here stick together and don’t tolerate terrorism.”

http://irrsoldier.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_irrsoldier_archive.html
“The plan is to stay here for the rest of the rotation and leave the country from here. What a glorious day that will be.”
He does not claim to be concerned about the fate of the Iraqis when he leaves. I’d guess he would be all in favor of bringing the troops home NOW!

Here’s a map that shows where Malkin was.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/al-kazimiyah1.htm

I do believe that she was at more risk of being killed or injured than she would have been at home in the U.S. However I don’t believe she was anywhere near being at risk the way Iraqis are, since our invasion. And it would be instructive to view a timeline of her “week” spent embedded with the troops. Don’t hold your breath waiting for it. My prediction is that she’ll obfuscate as much as possible about actual dates.

she seems to be saying that history and culture have wracked the muslim world. what does that mean?

Uh… that she truly believes being ignorant and uncultured is the BEST way to pass through this world? Well, then, at least she lives as she professes — in this sense.

These guys (Ruppert, malkin and the rest of those ilk) are real morons (not to put too fine a point on it), for an up front view of whats really going on check out this link; http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2371456n

You can go to Booman to read the whole story, but watching this refutes all the bullshit feelgood delusions that the warmongers are spewing.

Oh, I forgot to metion that everyone should spread this link around!

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2371456n

I just heard this morning on NPR that the administration has decided to launch an agressive campaign to “capture or kill Iranian operatives it finds in Iraq.”

Uh….capture or kill citizens of another nation we aren’t at war with?

Who are these “operatives” going to turn out to be, anyway? Maybe some imam or cleric? A visiting relative? Or perhaps like those diplomats we detained despite the Iraqi government’s protest?

And since in the eyes of the Iraqi Shiite government, Iranians are allies…..how’d this going to go over?

We’ve destroyed countless precious texts and artifacts from centuries of Muslim civilization with “the roof is on fire” pumped through the headphones of 19 year olds. But they are the people who love death.

Babylon. Cradle of civilisation. One of the oldest cities on earth. A priceless archaeological treasure, a relic of human history. Now removed from World Heritage Listing, because Polish troops used it as a fucking military base.

These soldiers are well aware of the history, culture and sectarian strife that have wracked the Muslim world for more than a millennium. “They love death,” one gunner muttered as we heard explosions in the distance while parked in al Adil.

Personally, I love chocolate. Cheaper, and you can have it again and again and again.

that was neat. nice post. i mean its surprising (i know..it shouldnt be) to see people still reading her shallow and predictable posts about iraq. all they have to do is goto youtube and search for iraq.

Gotta love the reference to Iraq and Islam.

Iraq was a secular nation before it was invaded.

Can we play the same game as the wingnuts and claim any photo of Malkin in Iraq(tm) is fake?

Well…to call that a piece of journalism is stretching a bit. It sounds like a dumbed down piece of propaganda straight from the Oval office to me. God she’s dumb and annoying.

Compare this with Lara’s report over a CBS…LOL Were they even in the same country?

It’s all lies..starting with the biggest…9/11 and the “WAR ON TERROR” tm

Is Michelle the Gov’s “Token Asian”? They should have picked someone who could write.

Can we play the same game as the wingnuts and claim any photo of Malkin in Iraq(tm) is fake?

Brilliant!

Get out yer kerning-discerning and Photoshoppin’ scoping software, boys and girls!

Plus, I’ve always been highly suspicious of those purported ‘moon landing’ pix.

Sorry, I was just trying to get into character.

If you really wanna play the same game as the wingnuts, google the name of Sheikh Mohammed al-Bakr whom she interviewed , saying he loves the American presence. You’ll find a gentleman of the same name is a Zarqawi-loving jihadist.

OMG they must be the SAME PERSON!!!!!!