Tom Blumer at Newsbusters has fun with numbers:
Below are 10 listings for US cities and years. Your mission to accomplish (so to speak), is to guess whether each particular city’s murder rate in the year identified was higher or lower than the “violent death rate” in Iraq (which is, from all appearances, all-inclusive). Let’s use the Iraqi government’s higher number of 16,273 just for the heck of it, even though the Associated Press will “surely” be bothered that I’m exaggerating the level of violence compared to what their records show (somehow, I think they’ll get over it). Using the government’s figure means that Iraq’s violent death rate in 2006 was 56.49 per 100,000 residents (16,273 deaths, and a population per Wiki of 28,807,000).
New Orleans, LA - 2006; 67.5 (154 murders; population 228,000
Maybe the Democrats should be talking about cutting and running from Southern Louisiana…