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  • The War in West Philadelphia (More Die of GSW in the US than in Iraq)

    08/05/2007 11:43:52 AM PDT · by shrinkermd · 50 replies · 1,480+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 5 August 2007 | John P. Prior
    A good article written by a trauma surgeon comparing his Iraq experience with that of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Besides this there is this: "...More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa. "...Unlike the Iraq conflict, this war is not on the front pages of The Post or on CNN. You have heard of the Washington area...