War or Democrat Control: Which is Safer?

The end of 2004 is just around the corner, and we can safely estimate the body count in the 'Republican' war on terror and juxtaposition this figure to the body count in American cities run by Democrats.

I'm not posting this to demean the sacrifice that our brave soldiers have made, but rather to point out the hypocrisy of the MSM. They are making such a fuss out of the Iraq body count, but the sad fact is, that many of the soldiers (at least the ones that come from Democrat controlled cities), are probably safer in Fallujah than in Los Angeles County.

City Homicides Population Rate/100,000 Los Angeles 592 3.6 million 16.44 Chicago 485 2.8 million 17.32 Detroit 346 1.0 million 34.60 Philadelphia 251 1.5 million 16.73

LA Leads in Murders

According to CBC (Canadian - Dec. 24, 2004): U.S. Combat deaths: 1,034 (925) Total wounded: 9,981 Non-combat deaths: 282 (252)

LA - Road to Fallujah

Number of Arrests, Index Offenses, Los Angeles, 2002-November 13, 2004 Full Year 2002 Full Year 2003 Jan.-Nov. 13, 2004 Homicide 505 428 442

The Democrats are constantly complaining about how many brave, young American men have lost their lives in Iraq. We should examine how many more lose their lives in the serenely peaceful environment of Democrat controlled US cities.

The total American casualties caused by enemy action in Iraq: 1034 The total American casualties caused by living in a city run by Democrats: 1674

But this doesn't tell the whole story, you must also look at the respective populations. The combined population of the Democrat run cities noted above: 8.9 million The total population of Iraq: 22,675,617 (July 2000 est.)

So the Democrats are busy screaming about how the Republicans are running the 'war' in Iraq, they should be explaining to the American people why the cities controlled by Democrats have higher rates of violent deaths than the warzone in Iraq.

I just thought that the above information and perspective was interesting. So far, the body count in just Los Angeles and Detroit is higher than the combined body counts of Fallujah, Mosul, Baghdad, Tikrit and in fact, all the rest of Iraq.

I'm surprised that D.C. did not hit there. That really effective gun ban that they've had since 1974 sure does seem to work.