[Retain Mike]

I knew my wife and I were on the right track praying fervently for our son, while he was stationed in Washington D.C. with Marine Presidential Securty forces. At the 8th and I Streets Marine base (est. 1801) my son, while on duty regularly heard small arms fire nearby, because it was adjacent a really bad neighborhood. He also survived riding a Kawasaki 750cc motorcycle. Now he is scheduled to deploy with 3/4 Marines, probably as one of those "Strategic Corporals" General Krulak referred to in discussing the "Three Block War". Rush is commenting on a New York Sun article, and I hope a subscriber reads the thread and post the article in its entirety.

[Grampa Dave]

Great! Probably most big Blue Cities are as dangerous or more so than Baghdad.

[Clintonfatigued]

That is news, particularly because violent deaths in those places are lower now than in the late 1980's/early 1990's.

[Grampa Dave]

Fyi, files, and ping lists.

[bubman]

I always argued with my bleeding heart liberal wankers that the best place a black man can be is in the military. Go in at 16 come out at 25. I always said that the scariest black man is not a gangbanger but a man in a uniform complimented with an education and the martial knowledge to defend himself.

Liberals wake up in a sweat when they have a 'nightmare' like this. To them a black man has to be angry, dependent and the worst thing, not rooted to a purpose bigger than himself.

[jiggyboy]

"Aw jeez, not this sh** again!"

He compares the violent-death statistic for the entire country to the statistic for a third-rate city. How many car bombings are happening in the 90% of places in Iraq that don't have any cars?

[mathluv]

I remember Ann Coulter saying she would not leave the hotel at night in DC - when there was a discussion of leaving an hotel in Iraq.

[Jim_Curtis]

Using the rat logic that murderers choosing to murder people in Iraq means we haven't won the war...I guess it was never "mission accomplished" for George Washington then.

[Delta 21]

Quagmire bump.

[Ticonderoga34]

I wonder what the murder rate in Iraq was before the war if you included the victims of Saddam's regime.

[Tanniker Smith]

Reminds me of one of the few funny bits from Dennis Miller when he still did Weekend Update on SNL. The folks over in the Gaza Strip opened up a Tourist Bureau, trying to spruce up their image and attract visitors, despite the violence.

Miller read the story straight because it was silly enough, but then added the punchline, "But if you do go to the Gaza Strip, authorities warn you to bring your riot shield and your Visa card because in the Gaza Strip, they don't take prisoners and they don't take American Express."

(It was an 80s Visa commercial thing, for those unfamiliar with it.)

TS

[cvq3842]

Good point. I know Washington DC fairly well, and several neighborhoods are positively terrifying.

Prayers and best wishes for your son. Thanks and God bless for his service.

[mylife]

The Army recently reported that they were losing more Soldiers stateside(on leave) in accidents than in Afghanistan

[freddymuldoon]

Okay, so the murder rate is lower in Baghdad than in DC, Atlanta, pre-Katrina N.O. I am even betting Chicago has a higher. Does this mean that we can take our soldiers in Iraq and have them patrol New Fallujah (Detroit), DC, Atlanta, and other haven's of the criminal enterprise?

[The Wizard]

bttt

[Gone GF]

Hmmm, I wonder how the rate of having body parts blown off compares? Seriously, though, this is just a stupid statistics trick.

Everybody who would really like to go to Iraq for vacation raise your hand. Don't all jump at once.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Are things that much better in Chicago?

[Non-Sequitur]

According to Mr. King, the violent death rate in Iraq is 25.71 per 100,000

Let's compare apples with apples. That's 5 times higher than the violent death rate of the U.S. as a whole.

[george76]

[do the dhue]

OK OK, I am going to panic now! What would the Demorats do? I know, they would hit the EASY button.



The Demoratic easy button says to turn Baltimore, Atlanta, and Washington over to the terrorist and then we need to pull out of those cities.

Phew, thank Staples for the EASY button.