Michael J. Totten Arrives in Iraq

Posted By Blackfive

One of my favorite independent journalists/bloggers, Michael J. Totten has a post about his trip into Iraq.

...After having spent several days Baghdad’s Green Zone and Red Zone, I still haven’t heard or seen any explosions. It’s a peculiar war. It is almost a not-war. Last July’s war in Northern Israel and Southern Lebanon was hundreds of times more violent and terrifying than this one. Explosions on both sides of the Lebanese-Israeli border were constant when I was there.

You’d think explosions and gunfire define Iraq if you look at this country from far away on the news. They do not. The media is a total distortion machine. Certain areas are still extremely violent, but the country as a whole is defined by heat, not war, at least in the summer. It is Iraq’s most singular characteristic. I dread going outside because it’s hot, not because I’m afraid I will get hurt...

Blogroll Michael and support his efforts.  His next post will be about emdedding with the 82nd in Iraq.

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[Kat-Missouri/USA]

Hey Matt and Uncle J! Not trying to spam you, but hoping that the message gets to you sooner rather than later. I tried to email you but I'm not sure if the links in the email kicked it to spam or it was overwhelmed with your hundreds of other fan emails.

I'm with Soldiers' Angels and we need some urgent assistance. Wednesday through Thursday the Fighting 13th MEU signed up practically the entire unit for support from Soldiers' Angels (soldiersangels.org). That's 3000 marines. We need to get the word out. We are in urgent need of people to adopt some marines for care packages and letters as well as basic donations of monetary and material support.

Would you all be willing to "front page" a post to let people know?

You can find details at our local Kansas City Angel blog as well as a link to the Fighting 13th's website (a nice one, too):

soldiersangelskc.blogspot.com

Appreciate your assistance,
Kathleen

[girlfriendofasoldier]

Thank you for posting this!

My boyfriend is currently serving overseas in Iraq. He just left from Ft. Benning on July 8th... He is supposed to have moved from Kuwait to Iraq this week with the 104th Transportation Company.

This article makes me hopeful that maybe he was with the author sometime during that day.

It's comforting to know that Iraq is not as bad violence-wise as the MSM wants us to believe.

God bless Michael Totten, and our troops!!

Victory is on the horizon! :)