Iraq Safer Than Chicago
The city has gone to hell since Obama went on the road.
An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.
In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.
According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.
In the same time period, an estimated 245 people were shot and wounded in the city.
Funny how some used Iraq to describe hell on earth and blamed it on Bush’s illegal, immoral war. Now, it’s safer to walk most streets in Fallujah than it is on the South Side.
Maybe we should pull out of Chicago within the next 16 months. The city is lost.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Chicago is a QUAGMIRE, I tellya.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
You prompted a giggle here, Mac.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
This just in–
CHICAGO IS IN A CIVIL WAR!
!!!111!!eleventy!