Wrote Fumento, "So she's admitting she stays in a heavily protected hotel, which means she's also in the safety of the Green Zone. She doesn't say that all civilians taking the airport road travel in a vehicle that's so heavily armored it would take a nuclear improvised explosive to stop it."

Fumento, a courageous columnist who never hesitates to prick liberal balloons took out his pen and let the air out of her's:

"As it happens, I did go to Iraq. I was embedded with the Marines at Camp Fallujah in hostile Anbar province, nearly lost my life, and returned with a colostomy bag as a souvenir. But before that I walked and drove through the streets of Fallujah, which for some odd reason fell off the media map right after the major blood-letting ended. I reported back on progress in reconstruction of buildings and providing electricity and water to parts of the area that NEVER had it. And I can't begin to count the e-mails I got from soldiers and Marines thanking me for telling it like it is.

"Yost was right; media coverage on the war is terribly slanted - such that it may threaten our ability to win. This was much more clearly shown in the reaction to his piece than in the column itself. In any case, it's astonishing that his attackers, from the distance and safety of Washington, D.C. and St. Paul, presume to know what's going on in Iraq."

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